03278cam a2200361 i 4500 1141781473 OCoLC 20240522132300.0 200225t20202019mauabf b 001 0ceng c 9780358299615 0358299616 (OCoLC)1141781473 (OCoLC)1105153301 (OCoLC)1305901377 AJM e-uk-en HV 6535.G6 L6578 2020 Rubenhold, Hallie, author. 17207 The five : the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper / Hallie Rubenhold. First Mariner books edition Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. ©2019 viii, 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-323) and index. Map: The Five's London -- Introduction: A tale of two cities -- Part I: Polly. The blacksmith's daughter ; The Peabody worthies ; An irregular life ; "Houseless creature" -- Part II: Annie. Soldiers and servants ; Mrs. Chapman ; Demon drink ; Dark Annie -- Part III: Elisabeth. The Girl from Torslanda ; Allmän kvinna 97 ; The immigrant ; Long Liz -- Part IV: Kate. Seven sisters ; The ballad of Kate and Tom ; Her sister's keeper ; "Nothing" -- Part V: Mary Jane. Marie Jeanette ; The gay life -- Conclusion: "Just prostitutes" -- A life in objects. "The untold story of the women killed by Jack the Ripper--and a gripping portrait of Victorian London--[this book] changes the narrative of these murders forever. Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England, and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads, ran coffeehouses, 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. 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, but it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, by drawing on a wealth of formerly unseen archival material and adding full historical context to the victims' lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, 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."--Jacket. Murder victims England London Biography. 17208 Working class women England London Social conditions 19th century. 17209 Whitechapel (London, England) History 19th century. 17210 .b179425456 ddc BOOK 29674 29674 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2024-05-22 17.99 0 362.88 RUBE 66165 2024-05-22 2024-05-22 BOOK 1