Peter Sutcliffe
Standard Name: Sutcliffe, Peter
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Pat Barker | PB
was influenced here the actual case of the Yorkshire Ripper, serial murderer Peter Sutcliffe
, who preyed on prostitutes, and whose victims, she said, were as demeaned by their treatment after their deaths... |
Textual Features | Fleur Adcock | The new poems at the end of this volume evidence the power and versatility that FA
had reached by now. They include poems about death, dreams, erotic feeling, tiny incidents in her own and others'... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Daniels | It is often said of both novel and play that they are about Peter Sutcliffe
, the Yorkshire Ripper. In fact the subject is a group of prostitutes and the way they respond in... |
Timeline
30 October 1975
Peter Sutcliffe
murdered Wilma McCann
in Leeds; this serial killer terrorised women until 1980, remaining unidentified except by the media title of the Yorkshire Ripper.
12 November 1977
Women in more than twenty British towns held women-only Reclaim the Night marches on the model of one organised in Chapeltown, Leeds, this night by Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group
.