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Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London--the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. 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 peo...

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***By the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE***'A fascinating expose of the seamy side of eighteenth century life' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Rubenhold's pages practically reek with smelly, pox-ridden Georgian Soho' GUARDIAN-------------------------------------------------------In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden, and a celebrated London courtesan became bound together by the ...

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olly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine und Mary-Jane sind alle aus demselben Grund berühmt, obwohl sie sich nie getroffen haben. Sie kamen aus der Fleet Street, aus Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Wales oder Schweden. Was sie gemeinsam haben, ist das Jahr, in dem sie ermordet wurden: 1888. Die Handschrift des Täters war grausam und eindeutig. Der kaltblütige Mörder dieser fünf Frauen wurde niemals identifiziert, doch der Name, den ihm die Presse gab,...

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Miscast in the media for nearly 130 years, the victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told in this eye-opening and chilling reminder that life for middle-class women in Victorian London could be full of social pitfalls and peril.

____________________READ THE REAL STORIES OF THE FIVE WOMEN KILLED BY JACK THE RIPPERWINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2019THE No. 5 Sunday Times BESTSELLER - A New York Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, GQ, Washington Post, Oprah Winfrey Magazine and Independent Summer read/History Book of the Year- SHORTLISTED for the BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION- SHORTLISTED for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fict...

Hallie Rubenhold is a social historian and an authority on women's lives of the past. She has worked as a curator for the National Portrait Gallery and as a university lecturer. Her books include Lady Worsley's Whim, dramatized by the BBC as The Scandalous Lady W, and Covent Garden Ladies: The Extraordinary Story of Harris's List, which inspired the ITV series Harlots. She lives in London with her husband.

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