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People of Abandoned Character

Book Review: People Of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield

By Doreen Sheridan

May 5, 2021

This Gothic gaslight thriller presents a genuinely fresh twist on the subgenre of investigating Jack the Ripper. In Victorian England, Susannah Chapman leaves the Reading home where she was raised by her grandparents, in order to become a nurse at the London, a prestigious training hospital located in Whitechapel, one of the poorest slums of…

Clare Whitfield on Marriage, Class, and Jack the Ripper

By Clare Whitfield

April 29, 2021

The 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…

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