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

Hallie Rubenhold

Transworld Digital

2019

415 páginas

13h 50m

ISBN-10: B07GJJ4TXN

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.

Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women.

Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories.

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4 (Muito bom)

Um relato necessário sobre as mulheres que pereceram nas mãos desse assassino cruel e sanguinário, as quais sofreram nova violência nas mãos da opinião pública vitoriana, que as classificaram todas como prostitutas, quando na realidade apenas uma delas tinha essa ocupação.
As demais eram mulheres que, ao deixarem de ser esposas de homens, deixavam de ter utilidade e eram relegadas ao abandono e vulnerabilidade extrema das ruas.