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The Five

by Hallie Rubenhold

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2019
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Hallie Rubenhold places the lives of working women within the social history of nineteenth-century London. The Five concerns Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elisabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly, women associated with the Whitechapel crimes. Its opening contrasts the public splendor of Queen Victoria’s jubilee with the hardships obscured by the celebrations.

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Hallie Rubenhold

The Five refuses to write about Jack the Ripper. It reconstructs the lives of Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary Jane instead, and argues from the evidence that three of them were not what has long been assumed, only homeless women asleep when they were killed, a distinction Victorian police and a century of Ripper enthusiasts had not troubled with....

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First published
2019
Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
309
Language
English
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