Annie Chapman

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Gender	Female
Death	135 years ago
Born	Paddington
	London
	United Kingdom
Date of died	September 8,1888
Died	Hanbury Street
	London
	United Kingdom
Spouse	John Chapman
Buried	Manor Park Cemetery
Children	Emily Ruth Chapman
	John Alfred Chapman
	Annie Georgina Chapman
Date of birth	September 25,1840
Zodiac sign	Libra
Place of burial	Manor Park Cemetery
Parents	Ruth Chapman
Known for	Victim of serial murder
Full name	Eliza Ann Smith
Bodi discov	29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields, London; 51°31′13.35″N 0°4′21.20″W / 51.5203750°N 0.0725556°W
Date of Reg.	2019-04-11 21:59:16
Date of Upd.	2023-04-07 19:47:21
ID	677650

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Annie Chapman Life story

Annie Chapman was the second canonical victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated a minimum of five women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London from late August to early November 1888.

Outrage over Jack the Ripper-themed bar in Southsea prompts rethink

Jul 10,2023 10:50 am

... Historian Hallie Rubenhold wrote The Five, which explores the lives of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly - who were killed by the serial killer...

Pink Ladies' Tractor Road Run helps breast cancer research

Jul 4,2022 10:05 am

... Organised by Annie Chapman, the annual run wound its way through south Norfolk and north Suffolk on a route which started at Thorpe Abbotts airfield near Diss...

Jack the Ripper victims' biography wins book prize

Feb 16,2020 8:24 am

... The book reconstructs the lives of the five women - Mary Ann Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly - killed by the unidentified serial killer in the Whitechapel area of the city, often using little more than the DNA of a single hair...

Jack the Ripper victims' biography wins book prize

Feb 16,2020 8:24 am

Hallie Rubenhold has worked as a curator for The National Portrait Gallery and as a university lecturer.

A book that tells the "untold" stories of The Women killed by Jack the Ripper has won a literary prize.

Hallie Rubenhold 's The Five took this year's Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, it was announced on Tuesday.

The author and historian bagged £50,000 for the book, which attempts to give a voice to The Women murdered mysteriously in Victorian East London .

"These were Ordinary People , like you and I, who happened to fall upon Hard Times ," said Rubenhold.

The book reconstructs the lives of The Five Women - Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, Annie Chapman , Elizabeth Stride , Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly - killed by The Unidentified serial killer in the Whitechapel area of The City , often using little More Than the DNA of a single hair.

"There's so much in their stories that we can Take Away that tells us about how we live today: everything from homelessness to addiction to domestic violence," she went on.

"And people become victims because society doesn't care about them. "

Image taken from The Cover of The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

Stig Abell , chair of the judges for the award, said the "beautifully written and impressively researched" book "spoke with an urgency and passion to Our Own times".

Earlier in the year, around its publication, noted how "a landmark study calls time on the misogyny that fed the Jack the Ripper myth". The Paper 's critic, Frances Wilson , however, begged the question: "Why has it taken 130 years for a book telling the stories of The Women to appear?"

Rebecca Armstrong from wrote that Rubenhold was "giving Jack the Ripper's victims back their voices".

"Throughout the book, Rubenhold uses the particulars of her subjects' lives as a springboard to depict social circumstances that shaped millions of lives," added Wendy Smith in

Jad Adams from the acknowledged how the book did not include any gory accounts of how each victim met her death.

"This is because she wants to look not at how they died but at how they lived," he wrote.

Other titles shortlisted for the award included Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and The Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep , and On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons by Laura Cumming. William Feaver 's The Lives of Lucian Freud : Youth, Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell , and Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni were also recognised.