The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (2019) - Book Review
MY REVIEW Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition (April 9, 2019) Language: English ISBN-10: 1328663817 ISBN-13: 978-1328663818 Click Picture for Purchase Information “ 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. 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. 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 preve...