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Summer of 1888: "The Daily Telegraph had asked its readers to answer the question 'Is Marriage a Failure?' This came in response to a sensational essay in The Westminster Review by an early feminist Mona Caird who had gone so far as to proclaim the institution of marriage a 'vexatious failure.' - For weeks the Telegraph published responses, affirmative and negative; in all 27,000 letters were received. [...] And so the debate continued until 'Jack the Ripper' distracted the public's attention."
Mona Caird's essay is here: http://digital.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/E...cairmarr?seq=1
I found that interesting to read. She is clearly ahead of her times.
The text also provides some background information to the Ripper case by summing up the suppression of women by ideas about women's nature and marriage going back to Luther, that were still barely questioned back in the late 1800's.
Let's not forget the Ripper's victims fled from their marriages, and after that, they were shelterless. Reading Mona Caird's essay helped me understand their situation a little better.
And who knows, the Ripper himself could have been some irritated husband, too.
Mona Caird's essay is here: http://digital.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/E...cairmarr?seq=1
I found that interesting to read. She is clearly ahead of her times.
The text also provides some background information to the Ripper case by summing up the suppression of women by ideas about women's nature and marriage going back to Luther, that were still barely questioned back in the late 1800's.
Let's not forget the Ripper's victims fled from their marriages, and after that, they were shelterless. Reading Mona Caird's essay helped me understand their situation a little better.
And who knows, the Ripper himself could have been some irritated husband, too.
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