Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

platesillustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The five

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1050140283

Responsibility statement

Hallie Rubenhold

Sub title

the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper

Summary

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<U+2014>but their greatest misfortune was to be born a woman

Target audience

adult

Classification