Mary Jane Kelly, who at 25 was the youngest of the five, had worked in the upper ranks of the sex trade and had lived in Knightsbridge. Peabody Building, Stamford Street, Lambeth. The Nichols were among some of the first families to be approved as tenants for the charity-operated housing.
In the Victorian era, life did not offer working-class and lower middle-class women many options, and the five each had their own private battles to fight. Polly took the bold move of leaving her unfaithful husband at a time when the law offered no real protection for working-class women whose marriages broke down.
Annie struggled with alcoholism and attended one of the first alcoholic rehabilitation centres in Britain for middle-class women. The cards were stacked against all five of these women. Not only were they born into working-class families, and in a time of poverty, they were also born female.
They would never earn the income of a man, and their golden ticket was to get a job in domestic service. It was their duty to serve their husbands, produce children and maintain an unimpeachable character. As both Polly and Annie had parted with their husbands, society regarded them as ruined women. The same could be said of Kate, who lived in a common-law partnerships and had children out of wedlock.
Elizabeth was considered ruined twice; once when she found herself pushed into state-run prostitution in Sweden and a second time when her marriage broke down. Although only Mary Jane was a professional sex worker, the same disdain and disgust that 'respectable society' reserved for a prostitute was levelled the other four women as well.
They were all regarded as sexually and therefore morally ruined. These women are more than just bodies lying on a street, or a bloody bed.
They each have their own stories to tell, and Hallie Rubenhold carefully reconstructs the lives of each of the women in her book. Hallie Rubenhold is the Number One Sunday Times bestselling and Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction prize-winning social historian whose expertise lies in revealing stories of previously unknown women and episodes in history.
Her latest work of non-fiction, Bad Women, the story of the disappeared wives and partner of Dr Crippen, is due to be published in She has also written two acclaimed novels Mistress of My Fate and The French Lesson which are a feminist homage to the literary tropes of the Eighteenth Century.
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Jack Lis died at a house in Caerphilly on Monday afternoon. The dog was destroyed by police, who said it was "extremely aggressive". His mother Emma Whitfield wrote on Facebook: "With so much heart break and before close friends and family see his name in the news, I have to announce our beautiful boy Jack was taken so tragically yesterday. She said it was "not our dog, nor did it happen at our family home". We love you so much our sweet, sweet boy.
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