Carol Ann Lee
Autor de The Hidden Life of Otto Frank
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Carol Ann Lee, August 19, 2011, pictured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Obras de Carol Ann Lee
Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper (2019) 27 copias
A Passion for Poison: A true crime story like no other, the extraordinary tale of the schoolboy teacup poisoner (2021) 14 copias
Witness: The Story of David Smith, Chief Prosecution Witness in the Moors Murders Case (2011) 6 copias
Evil Relations 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1969-03-20
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Wakefield, Yorkshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
- Lugares de residencia
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Educación
- Université de Manchester (Architecture et histoire de l'art)
- Organizaciones
- Fonds Anne Franck, Angleterre (Collaboratrice)
Musée juif de Manchester (Collaboratrice)
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 18
- Miembros
- 906
- Popularidad
- #28,311
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 19
- ISBNs
- 96
- Idiomas
- 9
As the author points out, most books about Sutcliffe have been written by men about men - either the killer or the 'all male Ripper Squad', who also condemned or dismissed most of the thirteen murdered women as prostitutes or 'women of loose morals'. When young women like Josephine Whitaker, who worked in a building society in Halifax and was walking home from visiting her grandparents, or Barbara Leach, a student at the University of Bradford, were killed, they were labelled 'respectable' by the police and press and deemed worthy of sympathy, whereas the deaths of early victims like Wilma McCann and Emily Jackson were disparaged because of the areas where they were killed or rumours about their personal lives. Unlike Hallie Rubenhold's account of Jack the Ripper's victims in The Five, however, Carole Anne Lee doesn't seek to exonerate the non-'respectable' women, but instead makes clear that all of the women were killed because they were vulnerable. Sutcliffe didn't hate prostitutes, he hated women - but sex workers were easy prey.
My heart ached for the twenty two women named in the book, from Marcella Claxton, who survived the attack but faced racist judgement from the police and had to fight for compensation, to Emily Jackson, who was selling herself to save her family, and the last victim, Jacqueline Hill, such an inspiring young woman who was murdered 100 yards from her door. The detectives and key developments in the investigation - over five years - are covered, but the focus is firmly on the women, as they deserve. I was a bit disappointed in that respect that Lee included Sutcliffe's own testimony on the women's deaths - she could have left that chapter as one sentence: 'He confessed in great detail to murdering thirteen women and attacking seven others' - but I recognise that there is a kind of closure in his words, especially for women like Marcella.
I read Michael Bilton's book first and noticed the lack of female perspective due to the victims - Bilton rattles on about the detectives while reducing the women to body parts and soiled ground - so reading Lee's well researched and compassionate account of the very real women who were 'irreplaceable in their own right' as well as members of 'an exclusive club that you don't want to be part of' has been like resetting my knowledge of a dark period of local history.… (más)