The five : the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper
Rubenhold, Hallie2019
Books, Manuscripts
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. 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 Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty and homelessness.
Main title:
The five : the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper / Hallie Rubenhold.
Author:
Rubenhold, Hallie, author
Imprint:
London : Doubleday, 2019.
Collation:
x, 415 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780857524485 (hbk)
Dewey class:
364.152320922364.15232364.15232RUB364.15232 RUB
Language:
English
Subject:
Murder victims -- England -- London -- History -- 19th centuryNichols, Mary Ann, 1845-1888Chapman, Annie, -1888Stride, Elizabeth, -1888Eddowes, Catherine, 1842-1888Kelly, Mary, -1888Jack, the RipperSerial murders -- England -- London -- History -- 19th centuryWhitechapel (London, England) -- History -- 19th century
BRN:
2763941