The five women

[drstrange169]

http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/63721

New book, sounds interesting but, it really was true that " no-one has ever written a book about the lives of the 'canonical' five". One wonders where the author got her information from, if not Neal Sheldon's hard work?

[DJA]

Should be a good read, however sincerely doubt Mary Kelly was from Wales.

[John Wheat]

Should be a good read, however sincerely doubt Mary Kelly was from Wales.

To DJA

I think Mary Kelly made alot of things up about herself. Which is why she's hard to trace.

Cheers John

[DJA]

Reckon that was her game plan.

[drstrange169]

Whoops!
Should read "if it really was true".

[ChrisGeorge]

To DJA

I think Mary Kelly made alot of things up about herself. Which is why she's hard to trace.

Cheers John

Elizabeth Stride provides a good model to show the types of lies that these "unfortunates" told about themselves -- I mean about her losing her husband and two children of her nine children in the Princess Alice disaster of 1878. According to her story, she had supposedly been kicked in the mouth by another of the victims as they both swam to safety, which had caused her to stutter ever since. The truth was that her husband John Stride died of tuberculosis in Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum on October 24, 1884, more than five years after the Princess Alice disaster, and the couple had no children!

And of course compared to Mary Jane Kelly, Liz Stride is a victim about whom we know pretty much her full life story from the time she grew up in Sweden down to her end in Dutfield's Yard on September 30, 1888.

I would submit that it was having to get by on the mean streets of the East End that led these women to telling tales about themselves.

Best regards

Chris

[miss marple]

Does author acknowledge Neil Sheldon in his sources? The author is claiming this is 'new information' as if no research on the women has ever been done. Cheeky sod. Neil should sue.

Miss Marple