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

"The beauty of this book is often in the meticulous detail, which brings the women vividly to life."

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This phenomenal work of painstaking scholarship transforms our centuries-long obsession with the crimes of Jack the Ripper, focusing a lens on the lives of the canonical five victims: Mary-Anne Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly. Rubenhold exposes false, deeply embedded historical assumptions about these women and unveils the prurience and misogyny through which the cases are often viewed. The beauty of this book is often in the meticulous detail, which brings the women vividly to life. Haillie Rubenhold seems to know so much, not just about her subject but about people. She shows you, slowly and gently, the humanity of the Five, as well as the nature of the age. 

It’s a moving book. Death is the ultimate transformation, and Rubenhold illuminates each woman’s passing. I was in tears as I read the last few pages – which is simply a list of the possessions – some practical, others small personal treasures - that each woman had on her when she was found.

Selected by Catriona Ward, Our Winter 2022 Guest Editor. Click here to read the full Guest Editor Piece.

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