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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Rubenhold, Hallie.     Subjects     Jack, the Ripper.     Murder victims -- England -- London -- Biography.     Working class women -- England -- London -- Social conditions -- 19th century.     Whitechapel (London, England) -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rubenhold, Hallie.       by title:      The five : the untol...       by call number:      362.88 R895f     Search the Web     Rubenhold, Hallie.     Jack, the Ripper.     Murder victims -- England -- London -- Biography.     Working class women -- England -- London -- Social conditions -- 19th century.     Whitechapel (London, England) -- History -- 19th century.       MARC Display

The five : the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper / Hallie Rubenhold. by Rubenhold, Hallie. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. Call #: 362.88 R895f Subjects Jack, the Ripper.   Murder victims -- England -- London -- Biography.   Working class women -- England -- London -- Social conditions -- 19th century.   Whitechapel (London, England) -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9780358299615 (pbk.) 9781328663818 (hc.) Description:  viii, 333 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Map: The five's London -- Introduction: A tale of two cities -- Part I: Polly -- Part II: Annie -- Part III: Elisabeth -- Part IV: Kate -- Part V: Mary Jane -- Conclusion: "Just Prostitues" -- A life in objects 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. 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, it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five 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 a woman."--From publisher. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 362.88 R895f Core Collection - Adult Checked out Jul 18, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Home Delivery - HN Adult Nonfiction 362.88 R895f Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Home Delivery - HN Adult Nonfiction 362.88 R895f Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList

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