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Clara Collet in East End London
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Clara Collet in East End London
Author: Theresa Kemerer
Sunday, 20 January 2002 - 10:47 am |        | Hello everyone,
I'm currently working on a fictional short story about the Jack the Ripper murders, and have a quick question. I know that Clara Collet was in the East End at the time of the murders, but not sure exactly which months. If anyone knows, please tell me 
Many thanks!
Teri |
Author: Paul Begg
Sunday, 20 January 2002 - 04:46 pm | | Hi Teri
I have passed your message on to someone who will probably know and who I hope will make contact.
Cheers
Paul |
Author: Christopher T George
Sunday, 20 January 2002 - 04:51 pm | | Hi, Teri:
You may have this information, but if not might find the following useful from a site on Clara Collet and Charles Booth:
"by the autumn of 1888 Clara Collet had embarked on four months of hard investigative work in the East End. As Booth said as part of his input into the Labour Commission into industrial relations (British Parliamentary Papers, vol 27, Labour Commission),
"We [ie Collet and Booth] then sought assistance from some societies that interest themselves in the condition of the factory girls. I think the principal one is called the Factory Girls' Helpers Union . . . the object being to obtain introductions to the girls, to find a road, so that we might become acquainted with them. And Miss Collet in connection with that took up her residence in the East End, and lived there for three months (she gave altogether four months to the work), and during that three months she was continually engaged in trying to come in contact with the girls, and those who were working amongst them. . . . She would become acquainted with the girls and invite them to her house."
Deborah McDonald who provided the above information to the Victorian Web site also runs a Clara Collet website. Her site includes a section on Jack the Ripper. Both websites seem to be short on actual dates and maybe you need to go to the correspondence of Clara Collet and her associates, if it exists, to get a clearer idea of Ms. Collet's movements in the East End at the time. You might also contact
Deborah McDonald.
Best regards
Chris George |
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