Mary Ann Nichols
by Jim Hatch
Title
Mary Ann Nichols
Artist
Jim Hatch
Medium
Digital Art - Canvas, Archivel Paper
Description
I am doing a series of the 5 women Jack the Ripper murdered
Mary Ann Nichols
Born in 1845 and known to her loved ones as ‘Polly’, Mary Ann Nichols was the daughter of London blacksmith Edward Walker and his wife, Caroline. Polly grew up in the area known as the ‘Street of Ink’ – notorious for the number of printing houses located there.
Despite her family’s small income, Polly was educated until age 15 because of her proximity to the printing industry where the ability to read and write was essential. Yet she balanced education with caring for her family after the death of her mother from tuberculosis.
At 18, Polly married William Nichols, who worked with her father and the young couple were fortunate to gain a space in the new Peabody social housing. They lived there with their 5 children until their marriage became so unbearable that Polly left.
As a poor woman who would have felt the heavy stigma of ‘abandoning’ family life, Polly spent the years between 1881 and 1888 between workhouses, cheap lodging houses, and occasionally the street, dependent on her family’s charity, unstable work, and begging.
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January 19th, 2022
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