Pět životů: Neznámé příběhy obětí Jacka Rozparovače – Rubenhold Hallie (2023)

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and MaryJane never met, yet their fates ended the same way. They wrote ballads, ran a café, lived in country estates, breathed the inky dust of printing presses, and ran from white slave traders. However, they all had one thing in common: they were all murdered in 1888. Their killer was never caught, but the figure that the press created from him became more famous than any of his victims. For over a hundred years, the press and numerous studies have convinced us that the 'Ripper' was a murderer of prostitutes. However, historian Hallie Rubenhold reveals that not only is this claim unfounded, but it has also suppressed interest in the real, fascinating life stories of his victims. In her impressive, devastating narrative, Rubenhold sets the record straight. Her book presents to us the world of Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria, but also a world of poverty, homelessness, and widespread hatred of women. All five women died because they found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time – but their greatest misfortune was that they were born women.