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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by Hallie Rubenhold
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Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are known to history only as victims. Hallie Rubenhold refuses the killer the spotlight and instead reconstructs five ordinary Victorian lives: a printer's daughter, a coachman's wife, a Swedish migrant, a woman undone by grief and drink, a young woman drawn into London's demi-monde. Drawing on census records, workhouse ledgers and newspapers, she builds a vivid, furious portrait of poverty, homelessness and the narrow choices available to working-class women in 1880s London. Narrative history that reads like fiction, correcting a myth while restoring dignity to the women beneath it.
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