Victims of the Ripper in Popular Culture

Searching for references to Jack the Ripper in popular culture is an incredibly interesting reaserch topic, but when looking for refferences to the victims, it becomes a bit more difficult. references to Jack in most fictional media will often only regard his victims as subjects, examples of the work of a legendary killer and little more.

Most representations depict the victims a little too unrealistically as overly young and beautiful women (such as in the film 'From Hell' 2001) as dictated by the shallow nature of the apperance culture. It was Barbara Windsor in her mid twenties who was cast as Annie Chapman in 'A Study of Terror' (1965), not someone in her late fourties with missing teeth and a dirtied gown.

It's also interesting how you can buy a Jack the Ripper costume for a ten year old complete with a tacky plastic knife with fake blood over it, but when asked, I doubt they would know much about the victims and the gory details of how they were killed. It's like having a child's size Leatherface costume with equal size plastic chainsaw (which probably does exist...).

Here's a link to a site listing most of the refferences to Jack the Ripper in popular culture;
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JackTheRipper

Edward Bromage (0806096)