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Many people have asked me why I didn’t include Martha Tabram in my exploration of the lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Martha is not considered one of the Canonical Five victims. However, I thought I’d briefly tell her story today, so buckle up... #thefivewomen 
Martha died on the 7th of Aug, 1888, several weeks before Polly Nichols was killed. Her body was found on the landing of George Yard Buildings, off Wentworth street in Whitechapel. She’d been stabbed multiple times. That’s all I'm going to say about her actual murder.
Martha’s life experience bears elements of each woman’s story in The Five; she was separated from her husband, she drank heavily, she took up with another partner after her marriage broke down and she spent time in lodging houses and the workhouse.
