Description Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London--the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper.
She is also the author of the historical novels Mistress of My Fate and The French Lesson..
About the Author HALLIE RUBENHOLD, a social historian and frequent consultant for period dramas, is the author of The Covent Garden Ladies, the inspiration for the Hulu series Harlots, and The Scandalous Lady W.
They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time--but their greatest misfortune was to be born a woman.
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.
Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating Women from being told.
For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that "the Ripper" preyed on prostitutes.
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.
What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888.
They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.
They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales.
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met.
Description Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London--the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
