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The Five - The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
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The Five - The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Five
devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of
Victorian London--the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the
Ripper. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous
for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet
Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales. They wrote
ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed
ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers. What
they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person
responsible was never identified, but the character created by the
press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these
five women. For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to
tell us that "the Ripper" preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this
untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, it has
prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being
told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold
finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of
Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty, homelessness and
rampant misogyny. They died because they were in the wrong place at
the wrong time--but their greatest misfortune was to be born a
woman.
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