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\nThe Five: The Untold Liv es of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold.
\n"The untold story of the women killed by Jack the Ripper--and a grip ping portrait of Victorian London--[this book] changes the narrative of th ese murders forever. Polly\, Annie\, Elisabeth\, Catherine\, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing\, though they never met. They came from som e of London's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods\, from the factory town s of middle England\, and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads\, ran coffeehouses\, lived on country estates\; they breathed ink dust from prin ting presses and escaped human traffickers. What they had in common was th e 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 newspape rs have been keen to tell us that 'the Ripper' preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue\, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered\, but i t has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being tol d. Now\, by drawing on a wealth of formerly unseen archival material and a dding full historical context to the victims' lives\, Rubenhold finally se ts the record straight\, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen V ictoria\, 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 women."-- Provided by publisher.
\nA limi ted number of The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the R ipper by Hallie Rubenhold are available at Regent Place Library\, otherwis e reserve your copy here.
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