Mary Jane Kelly
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Mary Jane Kelly, also known as Marie Jeanette Kelly, Fair Emma, Ginger, Dark Mary and Black Mary, is widely believed by scholars to have been the final victim of the unidentified serial killer Jack th
24 November 1888 Penny Illustrated Paper illustration of Kelly
17 November 1888 Illustrated Police News illustration of Mary Jane Kelly
The passageway leading to Miller's Court, Spitalfields
13 Miller's Court. The murder of Mary Jane Kelly occurred within this single room on 9 November 1888.
Whitechapel murders
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Eleven women were murdered in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London between 3 April 1888 and 13 February 1891. At various points, some or all of these unsolved murder
Mary Jane Kelly
…inquest into Kelly's murder, Barnett informed the coroner that in the months prior to her death she had often asked him to read newspaper reports of the Whitechapel murders to her, suggesting she was illiterate. Newspaper accounts dating from November 1888 claim Kelly was known as "Mary McCarthy", which may have been a…
The "Nemesis of Neglect", an image of social destitution manifested as Jack the Ripper, stalks Whitechapel in a Punch cartoon of 1888 by John Tenniel.
Dorset Street, Spitalfields, seen here in 1902
Martha Tabram, 39, lived in a lodging-house at 19 George Street.
Mary Ann Nichols, 43, lived in a lodging-house at 18 Thrawl Street.