2021年10月16日 · Anne Naylor was 13 years old when she and her sister became apprentices at a hat-maker’s shop in Bruton Street, Hanover Square. Orphaned at a young age, the sisters had spent their lives thus far in a workhouse. Around age 12, workhouse children were commonly sent out to apprenticeships in local businesses.

2023年9月7日 · Frail of constitution, Anne Naylor was not gifted with the same stamina as her fellow apprentices. This vulnerability became her curse, drawing the ire of the merciless women she served. Their cruelty, relentless and malevolent, bore down upon Anne, an unrelenting tempest that ultimately forced her to flee.

The Pale Dreamer is loosely based on the true story of the neglect and murder of Anne 'Nanny' Naylor by mother and daughter Sarah Metyard and Sarah 'Sally' Metyard in the 1750s. [1] According to official records, Anne was beaten and starved by the Metyards after attempting to escape. [2] Her sister was also murdered by the Metyards. [3]

2018年12月31日 · In 1758 thirteen year old Anne Naylor and her younger sister were apprenticed to the Sarahs Metyard, a mother and daughter who ran a milliner’s on Bruton Street in West London, the result of which led to a grisly murder and a haunting that continues to this day.

2013年3月20日 · Metyard tried to revive Anne with smelling salts, but when this didn’t work, the two women realized Anne was dead. They locked her body in a trunk in the attic. They made a show of taking food to her for days so the other apprentices …

Miss Anne Naylor worked as an apprentice for Mrs Sarah Metyard and her daughter Sally, the tragic case was the most talked about in mid 18th century London....

2022年2月8日 · Anne Naylor, a 13 year old orphan, was apprenticed to hat maker Sarah Metyard and her daughter Sally. Treated appallingly, Anne was starved, beaten and eventually murdered by Metyard before being dumped at Chick Lane.

2015年7月19日 · One of those, a thirteen-year-old workhouse orphan named Anne Naylor or Nailor, was cruelly treated by the Metyards, who beat her, confined her to the attic and fed her nothing but bread and water. Twice she escaped and asked for help and twice she was dragged back by her mistresses to be tortured all over again.

2023年7月9日 · One such tale is that of Anne Naylor, a 13-year-old girl who was murdered back in the 1700s. These days, ghost stories would have you believe that her ghost is behind screams supposedly heard by commuters at Farringdon station.

In 1758, one of them, thirteen-year-old Anne Nailor, was battered with a handle of a broom and deprived of food and water after trying to flee from the house. Four days later she died and the body was stuffed into a trunk and placed in the attic.