The five : the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper
Rubenhold, Hallie2019
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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 : Transworld Publishers, 2019.
Collation:
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
Notes:
Also issued in print: London: Doubleday, 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 3, 2023).
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ISBN:
9781473542266 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
364.152320922
Language:
English
Subject:
Jack, the RipperSerial murders -- England -- London -- History -- 19th centuryMurder victims -- England -- London -- History -- 19th centuryWhitechapel (London, England) -- History -- 19th centuryTrue CrimeBiography: generalCollected biographiesTrue crimeBiography & non-fiction proseSocial & cultural history
BRN:
90647
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