The Five
eBook - ePub

The Five

The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Five

The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

About this book

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.

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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
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

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Map: The Five's London
  7. Introduction: A Tale of Two Cities
  8. Polly
  9. The Blacksmith’s Daughter
  10. The Peabody Worthies
  11. An Irregular Life
  12. “Houseless Creature”
  13. Annie
  14. Soldiers and Servants
  15. Mrs. Chapman
  16. Demon Drink
  17. Dark Annie
  18. Elisabeth
  19. The Girl from Torslanda
  20. Allmän Kvinna 97
  21. The Immigrant
  22. Long Liz
  23. Photographs
  24. Kate
  25. Seven Sisters
  26. The Ballad of Kate and Tom
  27. Her Sister’s Keeper
  28. “Nothing”
  29. Mary Jane
  30. Marie Jeanette
  31. The Gay Life
  32. Conclusion: “Just Prostitutes”
  33. A Life in Objects
  34. Acknowledgments
  35. Notes
  36. Sources
  37. Index
  38. About the Author
  39. Connect with HMH
  40. Footnotes