Victorian lower-class woman's bedroom

Victorian lower-class woman's bedroom

A depiction of what a lower-class bedroom would have looked like in the Victorian era, this bedroom shows just how poorly the victims of the Jack the Ripper killings were living prior to their deaths. The rusted metal bedframe with a straw mattress was their comfort and the grimy wallpaper was their decoration. Along the walls are pictures of the victims taken before their deaths, actual photographs would not have likely been hung on the walls during the Victorian era. In the corner there are some bonnets that the women would have worn to cover their dirty hair. This bedroom would have been all the women would have lived out of, there were no other rooms for the women to call home.

Andrew Waugh

Jack the Ripper Museum

2015

Mark Palmer-Edgcumbe

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