Mary Ann Nicolas was universally accepted as Jack the Ripper’s first victim. She was forty-four years old at the time of her death. She is described by Emily Holland as, “a very clean women who always seemed to keep to herself” (Barbee). What Emily is saying is that Nicolas had good hygiene, for that time, but she never seemed to branch out as a person, she was almost shy. She married William Nicolas in 1864. She and William divorced in 1881; it was one many of separations during their marriage (Barbee). Even after the Divorce, William was sending money to Nicolas as support, but in 1882 he discovered he discovered that she was working as a prostitute and stopped sending her money. William, had died a few months after the divorce, and just