The Last Fourpence, The True Story of Polly Nichols, Jack the Ripper's First Confirmed Victim: A historical dramatization in Polly Nichols's voice
London, 1888. In the filthy, unforgiving streets of Whitechapel, Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols is a hard-drinking, sharp-tongued woman struggling to scrape together fourpence for a night's lodging. Once a wife and mother of five, Polly has fallen on...