The five : the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper / Hallie Rubenhold.

  • Rubenhold, Hallie
Date:
2019
  • Books

About this work

Description

"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. Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories."--From synopsis.

Publication/Creation

London : Doubleday, 2019.

Physical description

x, 415 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Contents

Part I: Polly -- Part II: Anne -- Part III: Elizabeth -- Part IV: Kate -- Part V: Mary Jane.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-405) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    KM.W.AA8
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780857524485
  • 0857524488