Lynne will be telling us about the forgotten story of Catherine Eddowes, the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper. Lynne’s interest in Kate Eddowes was triggered by reading the book by Hallie Rubenhold – ‘The Five: the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper’. Kate was one of the two victims who had links with south east London and Lynne has carried out some further research to provide additional background to her story. Born in 1842 in Wolverhampton, Kate spent several years on the south side of the River Thames. It is unlikely that Kate was a prostitute, but she does seem to have been a woman with an impoverished start in life and who made some poor decisions, was unsupported by the welfare system of the age and who was then in the wrong place at the wrong time. Be amazed by what can be discovered about the life of someone mainly marginalised as a victim.
