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

by Hallie Rubenhold

Book Overview

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1328663817
• ISBN13: 9781328663818
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"