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  • What shall I call my novel about George Chapman?

    Hi Ripperologists

    I've finished a first draft of my novel about George Chapman as Jack the Ripper and have now started revising it. So far, I think it's pretty good.

    The idea is that the priest who visited Chapman in Newgate and Wandsworth (where he was waiting to be hanged for the Borough Poisonings) later abandoned the priesthood and wrote up his experiences with Chapman in a kind of memoir.

    The real RC priest who visited Chapman (born Severin Klosowski in Russian Poland) was a man called Howarden, about whom I've been able to find out very little. So I've invented a Polish priest called Aron Wozniak, who hears Chapman's confession that he is Jack the Ripper.

    I'm pretty sure I should call the novel 'Severin', but I'm struggling to find a sub-title. Any suggestions? Here's some I've got already:

    The Real Jack the Ripper

    Jack the Ripper Unveiled

    A Jack the Ripper Novel

    A Novel of Jack the Ripper

    A Tale of Jack the Ripper.

    Obviously the novel is inspired by Sugden: I find his arguments in favour of Chapman as Jack very powerful. Does anyone know what proportion of Ripperologists agree with Sugden?


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  • #2
    Hi Simon

    Good luck with the book

    How about more stressing him as the Whitechapel murderer?

    Is he responsible for any of the torso murders or non canonical Ripper victims, possibly American victims also in your book?

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    • #3
      How abhout this?

      " Severin all ties with Jack "

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      • #4
        OK everyone's thought it, and nobody's said it, so I'll be the sicko muggins:

        "Severin their throats?"

        Dave

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        • #5
          Servio and Aron's Big Mosquito Adventure

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          • #6
            As it happens....

            Originally posted by Simon Webb View Post
            Obviously the novel is inspired by Sugden: I find his arguments in favour of Chapman as Jack very powerful.
            Sugden does not argue that Chapman was Jack the Ripper.
            allisvanityandvexationofspirit

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            • #7
              "Severin.....By George I think I've got it!"
              I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might,' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbour; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
              Oliver Wendell Holmes

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              • #8
                The Barber of Severille.

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                • #9
                  Severin: A Tale of Jack the Ripper

                  This only because you had to "invent" a priest as your attempted research couldn't find much fact on the real one. I'm not a George Chapman as Ripper fan, but best of luck with the novel!

                  God Bless

                  Raven
                  And the questions always linger, no real answer in sight

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                  • #10
                    Chapman.. a chip off an old block
                    Chelsea FC. TRUE BLUE. 💙


                    Justice for the 96 = achieved
                    Accountability? ....

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                    • #11
                      Severin - A Whitechapel Murder Story

                      Carol

                      P.S. Good luck with your book!
                      Last edited by Carol; 09-14-2012, 02:40 PM. Reason: Forgot the 'Good luck' bit

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                      • #12
                        I've made him responsible only for the murders of Tabram through to Mary Kelly - I'm leaving 'Old Shakespeare' mysterious. I definitely want to put 'Jack the Ripper' in the title - not sure about 'Whitechapel' as well.

                        SW

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                        • #13
                          Excellent!

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                          • #14
                            Nice one!

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                            • #15
                              No, don't get it...

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