Societal Behavior In Victorian London During The 1880's

During the time of Queen Victoria’s coronation, there was a significant change in societal behaviours. In London, England an outbreak of crimes occurred including assault, robbery, petty theft and murder . In the White Chapel district in the East End of London there was hysteria due to an unknown murderer who targeted/ who's victims were women of the night. This serial killer was later deemed to be Jack the Ripper.
On the surface Victorian London may have seemed supremely confident and eminently respectable, but beneath that service there lurched the general feeling of extreme unease. During the 1880’s there were a lot of different fears and anxieties due to social theories such as what’s going on in the Royal family monarch and the changes
How ever “Jack’s” first victim Mary Ann Nichols had been murdered 31st of August 1888. The second murder was Annie Chapman whom was murdered on the 8th of September 1888. However Prince Eddy was reported to be in York at the Cavalry Barracks from the 7th to the 10th of September. On the 30th of September Queen Victoria recorded in her journal that she had attended a lunch with her Grandson in Abergeldie, Scotland where he had been staying since the 27th. On the night of the 30th “Jack’s” third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, faced their unfortunate fate, their times of death were between 1.00 and 2.00 am therefore the Prince would still be located in Scotland along with his Grandmother at the times of their murders. The final victim of the Canonical five was Mary Jane Kelly she was murdered on the 9th of November 1888. On this day the Prince was at Sandringham House that is 109 miles out of the White Chapel
Abberline was the chief detective of the London Metropolitan Police and one of the main investigators of the Jack the Ripper case. His theory arouse after the final murder of the Canonical five, Mary Jane Kelly. According to multiple doctor’s autopsy results Kelly’s time of death was between 3.30 and 4.00am, however there was a witness that reported to have seen her between 8.00 and 8.30 am the morning after the murder. This had stumped all the officers on the case when Abberline then said “Do you think it could be a case not of Jack the Ripper but Jill the Ripper?”, Abberline raised this theory in a conversation with his mentor, Dr. Thomas Dutton. Dutton said it was a highly unlikely case but that if it were a woman committing the crimes, the only kind capable of doing such things would be a midwife due to medical training in areas such as caesarians. This began a very valid theory over time deemed as “Jill the Ripper” and sometimes even “The Mad Midwife”. The reason this, at the time preposterous, theory has gained respect and possibility is due to the knowledge we have developed about the Victorian era. Since then we have learned that many women did commit a lot of crimes, some being murders such as “The black widows off Liverpool”. William Stewart was the first to write about the possibility of Jill the Ripper in his book “Jack the Ripper: A New Theory”. Stewart