i thought i had a pretty good painted picture of victorian poverty i learned so much reading this book!
Throughly fasting and tragic, i just had no idea the extant that society had in setting up women to fail in the first place. I mean your husband dies or divorces you and you were basically on the brink of destitution. Women’s work was not valued, meant only to be supplemental to her husbands income, if you were turned out hardly a job you scrapped at could pay for your bed thar night.

It was like the laws were set up to push these ladies deeper and deeper into the pitfalls.

And for society only to remember their killer reinforces the double standard (haled a genius while his victims are secondary characters hardly remembered and cast aside as drunks and prostitutes)

I will never forget their names
I will never forget the end of this book,the pages where they just list what was found in their pockets.
These poor ladies suffered their whole lives before they were taken from them.
I will never forget what society does to its women on the fringe.