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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and of the Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography
The award-winning, best-selling book that changes the narrative of the "Ripper" murders forever
Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England, and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads, ran coffeehouses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers.
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. Now, in this gripping narrative of five lives, Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight and gives these women back their stories.
The award-winning, best-selling book that changes the narrative of the "Ripper" murders forever
Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England, and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads, ran coffeehouses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers.
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. Now, in this gripping narrative of five lives, Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight and gives these women back their stories.
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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
alcohol and alcoholism
fetal alcohol syndrome, 108
habitual drunkenness, 106–7
homelessness and, 9–10
low-alcohol beer, 88, 106
Peabody Buildings rules, 30
society’s view of, 117
temperance movement, 105, 109
Vagrancy Committee, 129
See also Chapman, Annie Eliza; Habitual Drunkards Act; Kelly, Mary Jane; Nichols, Mary Ann “Polly”; Stride, Elisabeth
Allen, Elizabeth, 128–29
Antrobus family, 111
“Autumn of Terror,” 6–7
B
bare-knuckle boxing, 209–10
Barnardo, Thomas, 179
Barnett, Joseph, 257–59, 265, 269, 276–77, 279–83, 285
Barrett, Dennis, 278
Barry, Francis Tress, 100–104, 111, 113
Beck, Alfred, 181 n
Beeton, Isabella Mary, 88, 90
Bell’s Life in London, 209
Besant, Annie, 4
Black Country Bugle, 216, 224–25
Bloody Sunday, 5
Boekü, Eliesbeth Bluma, 271, 275
Boekü, Louis, and family, 271–72, 275
Bond, Elizabeth, 162, 183
Book of Concord (Luther), 139
Book of Household Management (Beeton), 88
Booth, Charles, 8–9, 51, 116, 118
Booth, William, 59, 246
Bridge, Candlewick and Dowgate School. See schooling and literacy
Brontë, Charlotte, 200
Broughton, Jack, 209
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 87
Bryce, James, 197
C
Calvert, Edmund, 200
Casual Poor Act (1882), 243
Catholic Convent of the Good Shepherd, 259
Chapman, Alfred, and family, 120 n
Chapman, Annie Eliza
alcoholism, 105–13, 115–17, 119, 132–33
common knowledge of slum-dwelling women, 285–86
at Crossingham’s, 119, 123, 127–31
fallen woman or prostitute, 124–27, 289
family ties, 122–23
fetal alcohol syndrome of children, 108
inventory of possessions, 297
lodgings on Dorset Street, 118–19
pride in her status, 102–3
separation and maintenance from John, 114, 119–21
separation from Jack Sievey, 121
silent about her past, 1...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Map: The Five's London
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Cities
- Polly
- The Blacksmith’s Daughter
- The Peabody Worthies
- An Irregular Life
- “Houseless Creature”
- Annie
- Soldiers and Servants
- Mrs. Chapman
- Demon Drink
- Dark Annie
- Elisabeth
- The Girl from Torslanda
- Allmän Kvinna 97
- The Immigrant
- Long Liz
- Photographs
- Kate
- Seven Sisters
- The Ballad of Kate and Tom
- Her Sister’s Keeper
- “Nothing”
- Mary Jane
- Marie Jeanette
- The Gay Life
- Conclusion: “Just Prostitutes”
- A Life in Objects
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH
- Footnotes