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Restoring humanity to Jack the Ripper's victims.

If you've found yourself fascinated by true crime but are looking for a narrative that goes beyond the sensationalized villain, "The Five" could be a remarkable change of perspective for you. It dignifies the victims with rich backstories, challenging the often-dismissive tales spun by history. Hallie Rubenhold focuses on bringing Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Mary-Jane to life, honoring their stories rather than the infamy of their killer. This book is for anyone interested in historical justice and the often untold stories of women.

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

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ISBN: 9780857524485
Authors: Hallie Rubenhold
Publisher: Doubleday UK
Date of Publication: 2019-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Goodreads rating: 4.11
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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, 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.
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Restoring humanity to Jack the Ripper's victims.

If you've found yourself fascinated by true crime but are looking for a narrative that goes beyond the sensationalized villain, "The Five" could be a remarkable change of perspective for you. It dignifies the victims with rich backstories, challenging the often-dismissive tales spun by history. Hallie Rubenhold focuses on bringing Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Mary-Jane to life, honoring their stories rather than the infamy of their killer. This book is for anyone interested in historical justice and the often untold stories of women.

  • 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.