Tom Holland

And of course, she is selling herself.

And if you can make yourself seem glamorous, then, you know, you're likely to create a market for yourself.

But obviously Miller's Court, which he'd moved into by March 1888, I mean, it is the opposite of glamorous.

But I think she moves in there and into Whitechapel more generally because by this point she's found herself a steady partner and seems to have given up on the prostitution.

She's stopped the soliciting.

And this partner, we've already mentioned him, he's Joseph Barnett.

This is the guy who will identify her in due course by her eyes and her hair.

And he was a porter at Billingsgate Fish Market.

And like Mary Jane, he had blue eyes and he was of Irish extraction, if Mary Jane really was of Irish extraction.

And Barnett was very, very keen on her, very fond of her and clearly wanted to make a go of things.

He treated her as his wife.

That's why she gives up soliciting.

They're essentially living as a married couple.

But by the autumn of 1888, their relationship is getting slightly rocky.

In July, Barnett had lost his job in the fish market and he gets kind of occasional work as a labourer, but not a regular income.

And so there's a need to pay the rent.

And so Mary Jane returns to soliciting on the streets.

And adding to the strain that I think this obviously places on their relationship is the fact that she is famously warm-hearted.

She's terribly popular among her fellow workers on the street.

And I think more generally, very kind-hearted.