Mary Pradd

Pradd was photographed by John Thomson a few weeks before her death and appeared in his 1877 book Street Life in London.

[1] Pradd was socialising with friends in Battersea when she was photographed by John Thomson in Kent Street, London, a few weeks before her death.

[2] Pradd died in November 15 or 16 1876 at the age of 55 years of a haemorrhage from a stab wound that occurred while sharing a room with her friends Gamble and Roland who were fully dressed and asleep at the time of her death.

[1][2] Roland and Gamble were initially suspected of being involved in her death,[1] but a jury found insufficient evidence to find them guilty of any crime.

[2] Pradd was found dead on the room's floor, fully dressed, with a three-quarter-inch long laceration to her body.