“…These roles, in fact, were designed collaboratively through the medium of Cullwick's diaries; Munby reshaped entries not only with specific directions and requests in terms of content, but also as an 'editor' who regularly deleted or changed passages of the text. 13 If Munby arrogated to himself the power to play literary impresario, Cullwick used the diaries to comment critically on his attempts to 'ventriloquize' the working woman, advancing a competing claim for her own authority based on intimate knowledge of and fluency in dialect speech: In this passage, Cullwick's power appears to be validated by her acceptance of Munby's control. She is asked both to affirm the upper-class male's rendering of dialect verse and to submit to his representational scheme.…”