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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

by Hallie Rubenhold
RM52.00 MYR
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Restoring voice to Victorian London's silenced women.

If you're intrigued by true crime and are drawn to untold stories, "The Five" is a poignant shift from the glorification of the infamous Jack the Ripper to a compassionate focus on his victims. Hallie Rubenhold delves into their backgrounds with care, humanizing these women beyond being mere footnotes in a notorious tale. It's an absorbing read that not only serves as a tribute to their forgotten lives but also as a reflection on society's long-held narratives about women and victimhood.

  • Anthony Award Nominee for Best Critical / Non-Fiction Work (2020)
  • Agatha Award Nominee for Best Nonfiction (2019)
  • Wolfson History Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2020)
  • Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography (2019)
  • The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2019)
  • ALCS Dagger for Non-fiction Nominee (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

by Hallie Rubenhold
RM52.00 MYR
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ISBN: 9781328663818
Authors: Hallie Rubenhold
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date of Publication: 2019-04-09
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: European History, Biography, Historical
Goodreads rating: 4.09
(rated by 66080 readers)

Description

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. 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, 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.
 

Restoring voice to Victorian London's silenced women.

If you're intrigued by true crime and are drawn to untold stories, "The Five" is a poignant shift from the glorification of the infamous Jack the Ripper to a compassionate focus on his victims. Hallie Rubenhold delves into their backgrounds with care, humanizing these women beyond being mere footnotes in a notorious tale. It's an absorbing read that not only serves as a tribute to their forgotten lives but also as a reflection on society's long-held narratives about women and victimhood.

  • Anthony Award Nominee for Best Critical / Non-Fiction Work (2020)
  • Agatha Award Nominee for Best Nonfiction (2019)
  • Wolfson History Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2020)
  • Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography (2019)
  • The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2019)
  • ALCS Dagger for Non-fiction Nominee (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.