Comments on: The Sweetest Thing by Fiona Shaw http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/the-sweetest-thing-by-fiona-shaw/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:06:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/the-sweetest-thing-by-fiona-shaw/comment-page-1/#comment-99220 Paul Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:51:22 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/the-sweetest-thing-by-fiona-shaw/#comment-99220 Ransom sounds a little like Arthur Munby, a Victorian gentleman with an upper class upbringing, connections and education, but who was obsessed with working class women. He wrote a diary detailing his encounters with them and his later marriage to a serving girl. His writing was compiled with a biography by Derek Hudson in "Munby - Man of Two Worlds." <strong>jb says</strong>: Thanks for that, Paul. Another case of the fact being stranger than fiction. But perhaps not that strange when you think of the artificial complete separation of the classes at that time. Ransom sounds a little like Arthur Munby, a Victorian gentleman with an upper class upbringing, connections and education, but who was obsessed with working class women.
He wrote a diary detailing his encounters with them and his later marriage to a serving girl. His writing was compiled with a biography by Derek Hudson in “Munby – Man of Two Worlds.”

jb says: Thanks for that, Paul. Another case of the fact being stranger than fiction. But perhaps not that strange when you think of the artificial complete separation of the classes at that time.

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