Type: Paperback
Condition: Used, Like new off the shelf. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages.
Details: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, author Hallie Rubenhold
ISBN: 978-0-358-29961-5
Pages: 352
Published: 2019

THE AWARD-WINNING, BEST-SELLING
BOOK THAT CHANGES THE NARRATIVE OF
THE "RIPPER" MURDERS FOREVER
Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for th
same thing, though they never met. They came from some of Lon
don's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory town
of middle England, and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads, ran coffee
houses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses
and escaped human 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. Now, in
this gripping narrative of five lives, Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record
straight and gives these women back their stories.
"A devastatingly scrupulous account . .. Her simple care and exactitude
in the matter of these women - her dogged retusal to accept that they were 'only
prostitutes - restores their dignity and humanitv." - Guardian
"Each [woman] had a distinct story that has never been fully or truthfully told.
Why Victorians preferred to embrace the myth is one question that guides the
book: whv we continue
to do so
is another "- The New Yorker