Clare Whitfield on Marriage, Class, and Jack the Ripper
By Clare Whitfield
April 29, 2021The idea for People of Abandoned Character, a story about a woman who thinks she may have married Jack the Ripper, came from a night class at a local college. The teacher had handed out newspaper clippings from 1888 reporting the murder of Polly Nicholls and we were asked to write from the point of…