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The Five
- The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
- By: Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,370
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,186
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,180
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. 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, but it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone needs to read/listen to this book
- By AAHickman on 12-05-19
- The Five
- The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
- By: Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
A must read
Reviewed: 02-14-21
This book is beautifully written and marvelous told. I've grown up on the story of Jack the Ripper and never in all my years of reading about the crimes have I ever come across so much information about the lives of these five women or the working poor in Victorian London. The conclusion is especially brutal to see how far we've come as a society and how far we still have to go in how women are thought of.
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