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- 0:15Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hello, revisionous history fans. Malcolm Glawel here, I want
- 0:26Speaker 1: to tell you about a new podcast from Pushkin Industries
- 0:29Speaker 1: called Bad Women. Ripper retold you know the story. In
- 0:34Speaker 1: eighteen eighty eight, five female prostitutes were brutally murdered in
- 0:39Speaker 1: a London slum, attacks so violent the killer earned a nickname,
- 0:43Speaker 1: Jack the Ripper. For centuries, we've assumed these women were
- 0:47Speaker 1: indeed bad women. But what if everything we know about
- 0:50Speaker 1: them is wrong. Historian Halle Rubinholt has uncovered the true
- 0:56Speaker 1: stories of the Ripper's victims. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and
- 1:01Speaker 1: Mary Jane all struggled against the misogyny that thrived in
- 1:04Speaker 1: Victorian England until they found themselves in the path of
- 1:08Speaker 1: one of the most vish killers in history. Listeners are
- 1:13Speaker 1: loving the show. I've called it brilliant, a badly missing
- 1:16Speaker 1: lair to the story, addicting, fascinating, informative and entertaining, and
- 1:22Speaker 1: a historical treat and Bad Women is critically acclaimed. It's
- 1:27Speaker 1: been deemed one of the best true crime podcasts by
- 1:30Speaker 1: The Guardian, Vulture, and Esquire. Fulcher said Hallie takes aim
- 1:35Speaker 1: at her critics in her first episode and continues throughout
- 1:39Speaker 1: too satisfyingly skewer ripperologists, especially one former officer, who seems
- 1:44Speaker 1: to think the murder victims at the heart of the
- 1:46Speaker 1: case must have done something to warrant their gutting one
- 1:50Speaker 1: way or another. If you haven't listened to Bad Women yet,
- 1:55Speaker 1: I don't know what you're waiting for. I'm going to
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- 2:01Speaker 1: You can binge the entire season on all your holiday
- 2:04Speaker 1: travels and staycations. Just search for Bad Women wherever you
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- 2:14Speaker 2: It's a warm September evening. The sky has darkened and
- 2:19Speaker 2: a moon has risen over the flat, oily river. Hundreds
- 2:24Speaker 2: of day trippers and pleasure seekers are aboard the Princess
- 2:27Speaker 2: Alice as she steams through London. Music, singing, and the
- 2:31Speaker 2: excited shouts of children give the so called Moonlight Cruise
- 2:35Speaker 2: a holiday feld. No one notices that the craft is
- 2:40Speaker 2: moving directly into the course of a great iron holed freighter.
- 2:45Speaker 2: The Princess Alice plows on her paddle wheels, biting into
- 2:49Speaker 2: the rank sewage brought waters of the Thames. What unfolds
- 2:55Speaker 2: over the next few terrible minutes will be a tragedy
- 2:58Speaker 2: for the city, but an opportunity for Elizabeth's stride. Maybe
- 3:04Speaker 2: the first time she has benefited from the misfortune of others,
- 3:07Speaker 2: but it will not be the last, before she meets
- 3:11Speaker 2: her murderer on the streets of Whitechapel. I'm Hallie rubin Holt.
- 3:18Speaker 2: You're listening to Bad Women. The Ripper retold, a series
- 3:23Speaker 2: about the real lives of the women killed by Jack
- 3:26Speaker 2: the Ripper and how we got their stories so wrong.
- 3:31Speaker 2: One side, money plenty and friends too by the scar.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Then fortune smart upon me and long one pass m
- 3:54Speaker 2: a lonely and not twelve halfet lone seems too lovely.
- 4:06Speaker 2: I'm comfy from Elizabeth, Gustav's daughter, was borne by candlelight
- 4:22Speaker 2: in the darkness of a Swedish November. Her father tended
- 4:26Speaker 2: the land and rural towards landa, cultivating fields of grain,
- 4:29Speaker 2: flax and potatoes. He also owned a barn, several cows, pigs, chickens,
- 4:35Speaker 2: and a horse. The family was more prosperous than many
- 4:38Speaker 2: in the area, and Elizabeth grew up in a sturdy
- 4:41Speaker 2: clapboard farmhouse as a farmer's daughter. In the eighteen forties.
- 4:45Speaker 2: She would have been initiated into the routine of agricultural
- 4:49Speaker 2: life as soon as she was steady enough on her
- 4:51Speaker 2: feet to carry pails and gather eggs. When she grew older,
- 4:55Speaker 2: she would have assisted with milking, tending the chickens and pigs,
- 4:58Speaker 2: making butter, and even distilling aquavit, the alcoholic liquor traditionally
- 5:03Speaker 2: offered at meal times in Swedish households. Elizabeth's local community
- 5:08Speaker 2: was small and conservative. She was raised a Lutheran, and
- 5:12Speaker 2: prayer would have punctuated her days upon waking, before meals
- 5:16Speaker 2: and before bed, asking the Lord to shepherd his flock
- 5:19Speaker 2: safely through the long night. As a girl, little was
- 5:24Speaker 2: expected of her beyond mastery of housekeeping, childcare, and basic
- 5:28Speaker 2: animal husbandry, all of which she could learn from assisting
- 5:31Speaker 2: her mother. She therefore received little schooling. Elizabeth probably grew
- 5:36Speaker 2: accustomed to the constant rhythm of farm life, the turning
- 5:40Speaker 2: of the seasons, the cutting of the fields, the freezing
- 5:43Speaker 2: of the earth, the thaw, the sowing of seeds. But
- 5:48Speaker 2: just before her seventeenth birthday, everything changed. Elizabeth set out
- 5:52Speaker 2: for the city of Gothenburg to seek employment as a
- 5:55Speaker 2: servant in Sweden. As in other European countries, it was
- 5:59Speaker 2: traditional for young women to gain experience of domestic life
- 6:02Speaker 2: beyond the confines of their homes and communities. This was
- 6:06Speaker 2: seen as a kind of apprenticeship before they eventually as
- 6:09Speaker 2: assumed command of their own households. Elizabeth went to work
- 6:12Speaker 2: as a maid for a lower middle class family. Domestic
- 6:16Speaker 2: labour at this time was cheap and in plentiful supply,
- 6:19Speaker 2: so even families of meager means could afford to hire help.
- 6:23Speaker 2: Employers were obliged to house, feed, clothe, and tend to
- 6:27Speaker 2: their servants when they were ill. In return, servants offered
- 6:31Speaker 2: their complete obedience. Yet choosing and hiring a servant could
- 6:35Speaker 2: also be risky. Bringing unknown young women into the home
- 6:39Speaker 2: could have unpredictable consequences. There was a preference for the ruddy,
- 6:44Speaker 2: cheek daughters of yeomen, who smelled like grass and goats.
- 6:48Speaker 2: It was believed that these girls had not yet learned
- 6:50Speaker 2: how to deceive or steal. They were innocent and honest.
- 6:55Speaker 2: By contrast, urban girls had been exposed to avarice and licentiousness.
- 7:01Speaker 2: Although it was a master or mistress's responsibility to keep
- 7:04Speaker 2: them safe peril. Nonetheless, lurked at every turn for maids,
- 7:09Speaker 2: whether or not she encouraged the advances of the master
- 7:13Speaker 2: or his son, his brother, cousin, friend, or father. There
- 7:16Speaker 2: were plenty of opportunities for a young servant woman to
- 7:20Speaker 2: find herself alone with men, to be coerced, overpowered, or
- 7:25Speaker 2: to give in to mutual desire. And so while service
- 7:31Speaker 2: was believed to be the making of a young working
- 7:33Speaker 2: class woman, becoming entangled with a man could be her undoing.
- 7:38Speaker 2: Some women's lovers would promise to look after them, and
- 7:41Speaker 2: many made good on these pledges, establishing their mistresses and lodgings.
- 7:46Speaker 2: Some men lived alongside their paramours, and they posed as
- 7:49Speaker 2: married couples. Others visited only on occasion. Some relationships continued
- 7:55Speaker 2: for many years, if not a lifetime, but many more
- 7:58Speaker 2: fell apart within weeks. The nineteenth century double standard enabled
- 8:03Speaker 2: men to walk away from such attachments. By contrast, it
- 8:07Speaker 2: often devastated the lives of the war women, who were
- 8:09Speaker 2: left to bear the crying and gurgling consequences of these unions.
- 8:14Speaker 2: Elizabeth has taken to the grave the name of the
- 8:17Speaker 2: man who altered her life with his lust. It will
- 8:21Speaker 2: never be known whether her first encounter with him was
- 8:23Speaker 2: consensual or forced where it occurred or under what circumstances.
- 8:28Speaker 2: But by March eighteen sixty five she was six months pregnant,
- 8:33Speaker 2: and whoever had got her into that position was no
- 8:36Speaker 2: longer present to shield her from the consequences. Until the
- 8:40Speaker 2: eighteen sixties, in Sweden, extramarital sex and illegitimate pregnancy were illegal,
- 8:46Speaker 2: punishable offenses. In fact, across all Europe Bennett's colonies, sexual
- 8:51Speaker 2: immorality was a source of anxiety verging on paranoia. In Gothenburg,
- 8:57Speaker 2: the prostitution police were charged replacing women on the sex
- 9:00Speaker 2: trade Register, colloquially referred to as the Register of Shame.
- 9:06Speaker 2: There were two lists, one containing the names of knowledge
- 9:09Speaker 2: prostitutes and the other of suspected women, pregnant, single women,
- 9:14Speaker 2: women frequently seen alone with men or out at night,
- 9:18Speaker 2: and mistresses. The chief concern was the spread of venereal disease,
- 9:22Speaker 2: specifically syphilis, and bad women were seen as responsible for
- 9:27Speaker 2: its spread. This belief was then used to justify the
- 9:30Speaker 2: harsh treatment of women in legislation designed to prevent infection.
- 9:35Speaker 2: When her pregnancy began to show, it was surmised that
- 9:38Speaker 2: twenty one year old Elizabeth was guilty of lecherous living.
- 9:43Speaker 2: She was ordered to appear at the Police Inspection House.
- 9:46Speaker 2: On her first visit, she was entered into the official
- 9:49Speaker 2: register as public woman number ninety seven. She was then
- 9:53Speaker 2: further questioned and her answers included in the ledger.
- 9:57Speaker 3: Age twenty one years, appearance, blue eyes, brown hair, straight nose,
- 10:03Speaker 3: oval face, five foot two inches, slender build. I surmise
- 10:08Speaker 3: that this woman has not been living a life of gluttony.
- 10:12Speaker 2: The rules that were to govern Elizabeth's daily life would
- 10:15Speaker 2: then have been explained to her a lecture intended to
- 10:18Speaker 2: humiliate her.
- 10:19Speaker 3: You will attend the inspection house twice a week on
- 10:22Speaker 3: Tuesdays and Fridays, or face arrest and a fine, or
- 10:25Speaker 3: three nights in prison on rations of bread and water.
- 10:28Speaker 3: You will not be permitted outdoors after eleven at night.
- 10:31Speaker 3: You must conduct a quiet and a silent life. You
- 10:33Speaker 3: must not loiter in the windows or doorway of your home.
- 10:36Speaker 3: You must dress in a decent way when appearing in public,
- 10:39Speaker 3: and not call attention to yourself.
- 10:42Speaker 2: At the Police Inspection House, Elizabeth would have been subjected
- 10:46Speaker 2: to regular examinations of her genitalia. This routine was designed
- 10:51Speaker 2: as much to chase in the city's public women as
- 10:54Speaker 2: to screen them against the dreaded syphilis.
- 10:58Speaker 4: Syphilis is transmitted primarily through sexual intercourse, and it has
- 11:03Speaker 4: three key stages in its acquired form, primary, secondary, and tertiary.
- 11:09Speaker 2: Hanley is a lecturer in the history of science and
- 11:11Speaker 2: Medicine at Birkbeck University of London.
- 11:14Speaker 4: The primary stage is characterized by the presence of a
- 11:19Speaker 4: soft saw or a canker at the side of infection,
- 11:22Speaker 4: so in most cases this sort of been on a
- 11:23Speaker 4: person's genitals and this saw could appear a couple of
- 11:27Speaker 4: weeks to several months after infection and it would last
- 11:31Speaker 4: for a short period of time then disappear, and when
- 11:34Speaker 4: it disappeared, the patient moved into a period of disease latency.
- 11:38Speaker 2: The secondary stage could occur anywhere from several months to
- 11:41Speaker 2: several years. Later, patients would experience flu like symptoms, a fever,
- 11:46Speaker 2: swollen glands, a sore throat, and then the eruption of
- 11:49Speaker 2: a rash, as well as war like growths and lesions
- 11:53Speaker 2: on their genitals. Eventually, it would attack the person's central
- 11:57Speaker 2: nervous system. Sufferers might experience behavioral changes, including paranoia and
- 12:02Speaker 2: mood swings, deterioration of the spinal cord, and seizures. There
- 12:07Speaker 2: were other visible symptoms as well.
- 12:10Speaker 4: The soft tissue in a person's face begins to break
- 12:13Speaker 4: down this type of necrotic deterioration where a person's nose disintegrates,
- 12:19Speaker 4: essentially as does their soft palet in parts of their frontal.
- 12:22Speaker 2: Though, syphilis affected fertility too, and could be passed on
- 12:26Speaker 2: to a fetus before birth, so called congenital syphilis. In
- 12:31Speaker 2: the days before antibiotics, this was a terrible disease. So
- 12:36Speaker 2: as to avoid giving of fence to Gothenberg's respectable citizens,
- 12:41Speaker 2: all suspected and known public women were required to enter
- 12:44Speaker 2: the police inspection house through a concealed rear passage. Once inside,
- 12:51Speaker 2: they had to strip naked and form a line. Sometimes,
- 12:54Speaker 2: if the weight was a long one, they were ordered
- 12:56Speaker 2: to stand in the outdoor courtyard, shivering in the cold
- 13:00Speaker 2: as the uniformed officers stood over them. For a young
- 13:05Speaker 2: woman who had been raised in a religious community, the
- 13:08Speaker 2: indignant of the experience would have been shocking. However, as
- 13:13Speaker 2: Elizabeth was pregnant with an illegitimate child, she may well,
- 13:17Speaker 2: like so many women of her era, have internalized her
- 13:20Speaker 2: punishment as a justifiable one. Elizabeth can only have been
- 13:25Speaker 2: subjected to this routine a handful of times before it
- 13:28Speaker 2: was discovered that she was presenting the symptoms of syphilis.
- 13:33Speaker 2: She was immediately admitted to the cahouosit or cure House,
- 13:37Speaker 2: the local venereal disease hospital. These treatment centers, also known
- 13:42Speaker 2: as Locke hospitals, were designed for poor people. A stay
- 13:45Speaker 2: here carried profound stigma, and this.
- 13:50Speaker 4: Was in part of de terrent as well. Like the
- 13:53Speaker 4: shame and stigma that accompanied entry into a workhouse. A
- 13:56Speaker 4: similar stigma existed for the lock hospitals, and these were
- 14:00Speaker 4: institutions that were often seriously underfunded, understaffed, and lacked the
- 14:06Speaker 4: facilities needed to be able to provide people with effective
- 14:10Speaker 4: care even by Victorian standards.
- 14:14Speaker 2: Patients at these institutions were effectively imprisoned, hence the name
- 14:18Speaker 2: Locke hospital. Some women entered voluntarily, but many were incarcerated
- 14:23Speaker 2: against their will. At Gothenburg's cure House, attendants and nurses
- 14:28Speaker 2: used force to subdue patients. It was also overcrowded, and
- 14:32Speaker 2: when the number of patients exceeded capacity, inmates were made
- 14:36Speaker 2: to sleep on the floor. Mercury was the go to
- 14:40Speaker 2: treatment for syphilis at this time. The standard forms were
- 14:44Speaker 2: an ointment, pill, or tonic, but doctors also experimented with
- 14:48Speaker 2: other modes of administration.
- 14:50Speaker 4: Fumigation, I think is the best way to describe it.
- 14:53Speaker 4: So you'd sit in essentially something that looked a bit
- 14:55Speaker 4: like a steam room, and mercury infused vapors would be
- 14:58Speaker 4: pumped in and you sit there and you sort of
- 15:00Speaker 4: absorb it through your skin.
- 15:02Speaker 2: There was no standardized dosage for mercury, doctors saw its
- 15:06Speaker 2: administration as an art rather than a science. It was
- 15:10Speaker 2: also highly toxic and potentially deadly.
- 15:14Speaker 4: Severe Mercury poisoning could result in everything from loosened to
- 15:19Speaker 4: lost teeth and bettered breath all the way through to
- 15:22Speaker 4: hair loss and changed mental state, very similar symptoms to
- 15:27Speaker 4: what you might expect in the later stages of syphilis itself.
- 15:31Speaker 2: Pregnant Elizabeth was spared mercury but treated internally with acid
- 15:36Speaker 2: while her genital wartz would have been dehydrated or cut off.
- 15:41Speaker 2: After receiving this cure for seventeen days, she went into
- 15:45Speaker 2: premature labor. Elizabeth gave birth to a stillborn girl at
- 15:50Speaker 2: seven months while under lock and key at the cure house,
- 15:55Speaker 2: a birth certificate was still required. The space for the
- 15:58Speaker 2: father's name was left blank. Methods of treating syphilis varied
- 16:05Speaker 2: between countries, but they shared an underlying concept women should
- 16:10Speaker 2: shoulder the blame for its transmission. If the state could
- 16:13Speaker 2: control the morally corrupt women the disease is spreaders, then
- 16:17Speaker 2: the problem would be isolated. Sexually transmitted disease involves two parties,
- 16:23Speaker 2: of course, but male carriers were exempt from regulation. Unfortunately,
- 16:28Speaker 2: the idea that women, specifically female sex workers are solely
- 16:32Speaker 2: responsible for the spread of disease and should be punished
- 16:35Speaker 2: for it is one that we haven't left behind.
- 16:38Speaker 5: There's been a long history of sex workers being imprisoned
- 16:41Speaker 5: under public health justifications.
- 16:43Speaker 2: Grace is a sex worker from the UK who contacted
- 16:46Speaker 2: me after reading my work on Elizabeth's life.
- 16:49Speaker 5: People fear that we will be seen as vector a's
- 16:51Speaker 5: a disease. So unfortunately, these attitudes do still persist and
- 16:55Speaker 5: clients let you know about it, leave me. They will
- 16:57Speaker 5: say things and you fee, do you know what I mean?
- 17:00Speaker 2: In Elizabeth's time, as for Grace today, attitudes and fears
- 17:05Speaker 2: around the spread of disease caused women real physical harm too.
- 17:09Speaker 2: Syphilis inspections were brutally rapid. Fifty women might be examined
- 17:14Speaker 2: using the same medical instrument in less than two hours,
- 17:18Speaker 2: says Anne Hanley.
- 17:19Speaker 4: And that speculum was then passed to the attending nurse,
- 17:23Speaker 4: who sort of cursorily disinfected it for use on the
- 17:26Speaker 4: next patient. There's no way that these diagnostic examinations were thorough,
- 17:31Speaker 4: and there's no way that they were hygienic. In many cases,
- 17:34Speaker 4: women who may not have had a venereal disease were
- 17:36Speaker 4: being infected by the very process of examination to determine
- 17:40Speaker 4: whether or not they were infected.
- 17:42Speaker 2: Even if women seemed to respond to the rudimentary cures
- 17:45Speaker 2: on offer and were released from the hospital, their slate
- 17:48Speaker 2: wasn't white clean. Criminal convictions followed those who had been
- 17:52Speaker 2: inmates at Locke Hospitals, and once a woman appeared on
- 17:55Speaker 2: a police register, she would not be able to secure
- 17:59Speaker 2: respectable work. One of the only ways that she could
- 18:03Speaker 2: actually sustain herself would be to resort to the profession
- 18:06Speaker 2: she had been accused of practicing. Constitution. Elizabeth joined the
- 18:12Speaker 2: ranks of women who sold themselves on a notorious Gothenburg
- 18:16Speaker 2: thoroughfare known mockingly as the street of many nymphs. As
- 18:22Speaker 2: open solicitation on the street was forbidden, she would have
- 18:25Speaker 2: traded discreetly indoors at a brothel, perhaps, or in a coffeehouse.
- 18:30Speaker 2: Elizabeth had been publicly denounced as a whore, had suffered
- 18:34Speaker 2: the indignity of police examination, had discovered she carried a
- 18:38Speaker 2: potentially deadly and disfiguring disease, and had been incarcerated and
- 18:42Speaker 2: subjected to excruciating medical procedures. Estranged from her family and
- 18:47Speaker 2: from respectable life. She had then been released onto the street,
- 18:51Speaker 2: with no friend to whom she could turn in the city.
- 18:55Speaker 2: It was now that the symptoms of syphilis returned and
- 18:58Speaker 2: medical incarceration was ordered once more. But just when things
- 19:03Speaker 2: looked to be at their bleakest, an opportunity appeared, one
- 19:08Speaker 2: that would changed elizabeth life forever.
- 19:12Speaker 1: That was a preview of Bad Women. You can binge
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