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Cargando... The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (2019 original; edición 2019)por Hallie Rubenhold
Información de la obraThe Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper por Hallie Rubenhold (2019)
   Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Kalira | May 12, 2024 |    ) NightMarily | May 7, 2024 |  ) mybookloveobsession | Mar 12, 2024 | The book tells the story of the five canonical victims of Jack the Ripper. There may have been other victims, but these five - Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Mary - are the ones whom most historians accept were definitive victims of the Ripper. The book tells the story of their lives. I will easily admit that the record-searching and novel ways of finding out facts about their lives was nothing short of breathtaking. For most of the women Rubenhold can give meticulous details about their clothing, their lives, where they lived, why they turned to prostitution. As an act of research, it is excellent. As an act of entertaining and informing her readers, she falls down in my opinion. One thing that evoked the strongest of pity from me is an appendix to the book, which lists exactly what each woman owned at the time of their murders. These are some of the saddest lists I've ever seen. Polly owned only the clothes she stood up in. That's all. The other women owned little more. Feeling poor because I couldn't afford portabella mushrooms today (they were $13.00 EACH), is a far cry from the utter poverty of Victorian London. If I ever get a time machine, that is not an era to which I will venture. Two stars for research well done; three missing because it took me two weeks to read a 330 page book because it was so dull. (  ) ahef1963 | Nov 25, 2023 | There is a lot of interesting information on the lives of the poor in Victorian Britain and the double disadvantage of being female as well as poor. Some of the narrative is speculative but the author is honest where that is the case. The suggestion that the target victims were attacked while sleeping was a novel one to me and made sense. I found it an absorbing read and would award it 4 stars. ( ) kitsune_reader | Nov 23, 2023 |
These were not the kinds of lives that leave an extensive record, yet Rubenhold is able to weave a vivid narrative of Victorian working-class life from small factual scraps that she unearthed in police records, government reports and church registers ...The specter of illicit sex still haunts the Ripper story, an unkillable ghost that makes the crimes seem more titillating and their victims more expendable. Rubenhold’s account, however, makes a compelling case that the real monster shadowing these women’s lives was alcoholism ... Though we know how these women’s stories play out, Rubenhold achieves much here by making us feel genuine sadness and anger at their loss. This book is a poignant but absorbing exploration of the reality of working women’s lives in the late 19th century—and how perilously easy it was for married women with children to find themselves reduced to seeking shelter in the dank courts and alleyways around Spitalfields, where the Ripper operated. It is a book that brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'Victorian values.' If the Dickensian emphasis is a touch overdone, the point remains ... Allowing that the documentary record is incomplete—the case files on three of the five murders have gone missing—Rubenhold urges us to see the victims...not as the 'fallen women' of the received record. A lively if morbid exercise in Victorian social history essential to students of Ripperiana. Hallie Rubenhold’s book about the 'canonical' victims of Jack the Ripper is, at one level, a victim impact statement ... What she has to say on that topic is as horrifying as the Ripper’s crimes ... Rubenhold is an engaging writer though, as she readily admits, these women’s lives were not well documented before they achieved their notoriety, and the reports that followed their murders are not reliable. Then, too, there is a certain grim monotony as we follow the five in their doleful circuit from poor house to flop house to the streets where they would be killed. Still, Rubenhold does a commendable job in bringing these women on stage and through their stories illuminating the appalling reality behind the veneer of Victorian complacency. PremiosListas de sobresalientes
Un exhaustivo y contundente trabajo de investigación histórica, sobre la misoginia que ha alimentado el mito de Jack el Destripador. Un true crime devastador. Una investigación seria, profunda y rigurosa. No. 1 de las listas de No Ficción en Reino Unido y Estados Unidos. Ganador del Premio Baillie Gifford Prize al mejor libro de No Ficción del 2019. Mejor libro del año para el Hay Festival 2019. Mejor libro de Historia 2019 para los lectores de GOODREADS. Mejor libro true crime para The New York Times Book Review. Uno de los 20 mejores libros del año para el Washington Post. Uno de los 20 mejores libros del año para Oprah.com Nominado al Gold Dagger como mejor libro de No Ficción. Nominado al Premio de la Historical Writers' Association al mejor libro de No Ficción. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine y Mary-Jane son famosas por lo mismo, aunque nunca se conocieron entre ellas. Ellas eran de Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Suecia y Gales. Compusieron baladas, regentearon cafeterías, vivieron en fincas, respiraron el polvo de la tinta de las imprentas y escaparon de traficantes de seres humanos. Lo que sí tuvieron en común fue el año 1888. El año de sus asesinatos. Su asesino jamás fue identificado, pero el nombre creado para él por la prensa se convirtió en un nombre mucho más famoso que cualquiera del de alguno de estas cinco mujeres. Durante más de un siglo, la prensa nos ha explicado que "el Destripador" atacaba principalmente a prostitutas. No solo es que no sea cierto, como historiadora, Hallie Rubenhold ha descubierto y nos cuenta las historias reales de estas fascinantes mujeres. Y ahora, en este relato revelador, la autora finalmente establece que aquel fue un mundo mucho más amplio que el de Dickens y la Reina Victoria, en el que imperaba la pobreza, los vagabundos y la misoginia. Estas cinco mujeres murieron porque estaban en el lugar equivocado en el momento equivocado, pero su mayor desgracia fue haber nacido mujeres. Ahora, en esta narración devastadora de aquellas cinco vidas, la historiadora Hallie Rubenhold finalmente pone las cosas en claro, y les devuelve a estas mujeres su historia. Best seller del: The New York Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, GQ, Washington Post, Oprah Winfrey Magazine. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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In fact, the book lives up to the promise of its cover/title and gives short shrift to Jack the Ripper, which is a nice change. Each section follows one of these five women from her birth to her murder (the latter covered in very brief detail), as best/where possible with records of the time, and along the way does its best to connect the reader with the women, through their hardships, joys, personalities, and choices.
It's excellently done, fascinating, at times horrifying, and always keeps the women centric in their own stories. Speculation is presented where helpful, but only under the heading of speculation - whether it is of reasons one of the women might have made a particular choice, or to posit potential happenings to fill in a blank in her life as history records it. (