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The Five. The Untold Lives Of The Women Killed By Jack The Ripper HALLIE RUBENHOLD

The Five. The Untold Lives Of The Women Killed By Jack The Ripper

HALLIE RUBENHOLD

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Publication: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019, Boston and New York

First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. The author tells the devastating human stories of the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. 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 timeā€”but their greatest misfortune was to be born a woman.

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