The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the RipperHallie Rubenhold2019

Synopsis

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.

The "canonical five" women murdered by Jack the Ripper have always been dismissed as society's waste, their stories passed down to us wrapped in a package of Victorian assumptions and prejudice. But social historian Hallie Rubenhold sets the record straight in The Five. In reality, only two of the victims were prostitutes, and Rubenhold has uncovered entirely new research about them all--in some cases, material no one has ever seen before.

The Five tells for the first time the true stories of these fascinating women. It delves into the Victorian experience of poverty, homelessness, and alcoholism, but also motherhood, childbirth, sexuality, child-rearing, work, and marriage, all against the fascinating, dark, and quickly changing backdrop of nineteenth-century London. From rural Sweden to the wedding of Queen Victoria, from the London of Charles Dickens to the factories of the Industrial Revolution and the high-class brothels of the West End, these women were not just victims but witnesses to the vagaries and vicissitudes of the Victorian age.

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4 éditions pour ce livre

2019 Editions Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

336 pages

9 avril 2019

ISBN : 9781328663818

2019 Editions Doubleday

416 pages

1er janvier 2019

ISBN : 9780857524485

2019 Editions Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

336 pages

Format : AZW

ISBN : B078985Z44

2019 Editions Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Lu par Louise Brealey

Durée : 620 min

26 février 2019

ISBN : B07LGBCSLV

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  • avatar Coralit
    20 / 20 Le 01 Mai 2021 à 07:14 Coralit

    Un livre passionnant qui met un terme à la mysoginie qui a alimenté le mythe de Jack l'Eventreur, ce meurtrier, pourtant jamais identifié, mais dont le nom est devenu plus célèbre que celui de ses victimes. L'autrice a fait un travail remarquable et nous offre un éclairage très intéressant sur l'histoire sociale de l'Angleterre au XIXème siècle, tout en rendant à ces femmes leur humanité.