Domestic Servant O Prostitute O First Women example essay topic

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Mary Ann Nichols Also know as "Polly" Born: 26th august 1854 in dean street, Whitechapel Died: 31st august Job: domestic servant o Prostitute o First women to be positively identified as the 'ripper's first victim although many historians believe that Emma Smith and Frances Coles, (two women murdered in Whitechapel at the time) are also the work of jack the ripper. o Well kwon alcoholic o Married at nineteen to William Nicholls, and around 1877 he ran off with another woman. Divorced in 1880 and was left to make her living as a prostitute, and by 1888 she become a mother to five children. o Her body was discovered in Bucks Row by PC John Neil. Annie chapmen Born: 1841, in Windsor Died: 8th September Job: travelling circus in France, and also sold matches and flowers o Prostitute o Suffered from brain and lung diseases o Heavy drinker o Married a coachman, John Chapmen o Had two daughters and a son, one of the daughters died in 1882, and her son was crippled. o Last sighted by a customer at 5: 30 am, and then found dead earlier that morning. o Buried by her family in secret at Manor Park on September 14th 1888. Catherine Eddoes Born: 1842 Died: September 30th, found less than an hour after Elizabeth Stride's o Prostitute o Moved to London's Bermondsey district at the age of two o Separated to Thomas Conway, a pensioner who was a father to three of her children, in 1880. o Heavy drinker o Berried in an unmarked grave in Ilford on the 8th October, and was witnessed by hoards of onlookers. Elizabeth Stride Born: in Gothenburg, Sweden in November 1843 Died: September 30th Job: servant, and ran a coffee shop with John Thomas Strise o Prostitute o Treated for venereal disease o Moved to London in 1866 after giving birth to a still born girl, and married John Thomas Strise, who was a carpenter know to be living in Gower Street, London. o Marriage broke down in 1882 o Buried in a paupers grave in East London cemetery.