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The five, the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper, Hallie Rubenhold

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The five, the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper, Hallie Rubenhold

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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collective biography

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mapsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The five

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Hallie Rubenhold

Sub title

the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper

Summary

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. Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories. Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper

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5, the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the RipperUntold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper

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