Hi Jane,
I didn"t know that about Mary sitting with her crochet hook----it is not quite how I have ever envisaged her-but then so very little is known about her by comparison with Catherine Eddowes or Mary Nichols or Liz Stride or Annie Chapman.
I do agree that her young life was a tragic one though, and the knowledge that she had only the clothes she stood up in and that she had placed these,her only worldly goods, so carefully and neatly on the chair beside her bed before being murdered and mutilated with such savagery by the ripper ,is certainly an image that carries much pathos.
Best
Norma
I didn"t know that about Mary sitting with her crochet hook----it is not quite how I have ever envisaged her-but then so very little is known about her by comparison with Catherine Eddowes or Mary Nichols or Liz Stride or Annie Chapman.
I do agree that her young life was a tragic one though, and the knowledge that she had only the clothes she stood up in and that she had placed these,her only worldly goods, so carefully and neatly on the chair beside her bed before being murdered and mutilated with such savagery by the ripper ,is certainly an image that carries much pathos.
Best
Norma
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