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References

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Wouldn't this article benefit from in-line references? Colin4C 19:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are plenty now.--Kieronoldham (talk) 03:23, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Princess Alice

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Peter Ackroyd Thames: Sacred River, pp 389 claims that Stride was a survivor of the Princess Alice disaster, and that she ("perhaps falsely") had claimed to have lost her husband and three children in the accident (on 3 Sept 1878). I haven't added this snippet here, as it does not appear to concur with the timeline and circumstances of her life given in the article. Kbthompson (talk) 10:27, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Paul Begg in Jack the Ripper: The Facts (2006) pp 138-9 notes this story. According to Begg, Stride did indeed claim later that she was a survivor of the Princess Alice disaster and had lost a husband and three children in the accident. However historical records show that she didn't have any children and that her husband died in hospital six years after the boat sank. There is no historical record of her being on the boat at all, so the story is most probably a fantasy. Colin4C (talk) 17:26, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Height

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Reid said she was 5 ft 2 in, but Fido uses her supposedly tall height of 5 ft 5 in to explain her nickname. Any ideas on how to resolve/explain the discrepancy? DrKiernan (talk) 11:48, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hallie Rubenhold

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For a discussion on Hallie Rubenhold's The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper see Talk:Whitechapel murders#Prostitutes? --John B123 (talk) 15:01, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Resting place

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In common with other victims, the coordinates of 51.55782°N 0.04432°W are incorrect as this is in Hackney 4 miles away from the East London Cemetery, Newham Post Code E16 4LG for the main entrance. It's 51.526658°N 0.012057°E see bullets below for reference.

Photo of Elizabeth Stride

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It would be preferable if the lead photo for this article was not a mortuary photo of Stride. Stride was a person, not simply a corpse. There are photographs of her in existence. I'm not sure of the copyright/procedure for adding one to this article so would appreciate it very much if an editor with the requisite knowledge could do so? The mortuary photo could still be included, but further down the article in the relevant section. Songofachilles (talk) 13:54, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]