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Public Woman 97
A pregnancy out of wedlock caused a myriad of physical and emotional humiliations.
Swedish farmer鈥檚 daughter Elizabeth fell pregnant out of wedlock. The authorities considered her no better than a prostitute and subjected her to myriad physical and emotional humiliations. After she lost the baby, Elizabeth fled Sweden - embarking on a life of deceit that would end in her vicious murder on the streets of Whitechapel.
