Elena
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Morbid
Lizzie Halliday
Parkinson called off the relationship immediately and told Lizzie he was going to see his family and they would be getting divorced as soon as he got back.
Morbid
Lizzie Halliday
Well, before he could return, Lizzie packed up everything and sold the entire house and everything in it.
Morbid
Lizzie Halliday
Like furniture, clothes, dishes, fixtures, sold all of it.
Morbid
Lizzie Halliday
Since Parkinson was already married, though, and Lizzie married him, like you just asked, the marriage was never legal.
Morbid
Lizzie Halliday
And so it was immediately dissolved, and they just never spoke again.
Morbid
Lizzie Halliday
So after her marriage to Parkinson fell apart in 1886, Lizzie returned to Greenwich and found work as a wash woman.
Morbid
Lizzie Halliday
One day, not long after returning, she was visited by George Smith.
Morbid
Lizzie Halliday
A former friend of her first husband, Charles Hopkins.