Новинки Халли Рубенхолд

In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden, and a celebrated London courtesan became bound together by the publication of a little book: Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies. This salacious work - detailing the names and 'specialities' of the capital's sex-workers- became one of the eighteenth century's most scandalous bestsellers.
Yet beyond its titillating passages lies a glimpse into the lives of those who lived and died by its profits - a tragicomic opera of the Georgian era, motivated by poverty, passionate love, aspiration and shame.
In this modern and visceral narrative, historian Hallie Rubenhold reveals the story behind Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, and the legion of ordinary women whose lives in the sex trade history has chosen to ignore.

Более столетия газеты единодушно заявляли, что Джек-потрошитель охотился на проституток. Историк Хэлли Рубенхолд обнаружила, что это не соответствует действительности, и решила рассказать реальные истории женщин, погибших от его руки.

Хэлли Рубенхолд – историк и авторитетная исследовательница жизни женщин прошлого. Она работала куратором в Национальной портретной галерее Лондона и преподавателем в университете. Автор книги «Причуда Леди Уорсли», экранизированной BBC под названием «Скандальная леди W», и «Леди Ковент-Гардена», послужившей основой для сериала ITV «Куртизанки».

Книга о женщинах, убитых Джеком Потрошителем, в основе которой — пять поразительных человеческих историй и мрачный, волнующий портрет викторианского Лондона. Полли, Энни, Элизабет, Кэтрин и Мэри-Джейн вошли в историю вместе, хотя никогда не встречались. Они родились на Флит-стрит, в Найтсбридже, Вулверхэмптоне, Швеции и Уэльсе. Они писали баллады, управляли кофейнями, жили на дачах, вдыхали чернильную пыль от печатных машин и спасались от торговцев людьми. Их убили в один год: 1888-й. Убийца так и не был найден, но персонаж, созданный прессой для заполнения этого пробела, стал намного более известным, чем любая из этих пяти…

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.

What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888.

Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women.

Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories.

Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-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.

For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that ‘the Ripper’ preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty, homelessness and rampant misogyny. They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time – but their greatest misfortune was to be born a woman.

Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-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…

Fear your neighbour. Praise the Republic. Preach liberty. Hate monarchy. Speak in whispers. Trust no-one.

Revolutionary Paris, 1792: As the city spirals into bloodshed, Henrietta Lightfoot, a young Englishwoman, runs for refuge to the sumptuous home of Grace Dalrymple, notorious courtesan to the aristocracy. But loyalties are tested when she meets Agnes de Buffon, committed revolutionary and mistress of the most powerful man in France. Trapped in an unpredictable game between two dangerous women, Henrietta is about to learn a brutal lesson.

Ein gescheiterter Dichter, ein gefallenes Mädchen und ein Notizbuch voller schlüpfriger Details. Spannend wie ein Roman steigt dieses Debüt in die Londoner Halbwelt des 18. Jahrhunderts hinab. Mit "Covent Garden Ladies" hat Hallie Rubenhold ein wichtiges Stück Sozialgeschichte und ein schillerndes Porträt der georgianischen Gesellschaft geschrieben. AUTORENPORTRÄT Hallie Rubenhold, wurde 1971 als Kind britischer Eltern in Los Angeles geboren. Sie studierte Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte in den USA und Großbritannien. Bevor sie sich für eine Laufbahn als Autorin entschied, war Hallie Rubenhold als Universitätsdozentin für Geschichte und Kuratorin der National Portrait Gallery in London tätig. Hallie Rubenhold lebt in Muswell Hill, London.

"Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies" was a bestseller of the 18th century, selling 250,000 copies in an age before mass consumerism. An annual "guide book," it detailed the names and "specialities" of the capital's prostitutes. During its heyday, 1757-1795, "Harris's List" was the essential accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure. Yet beyond its titillating passages lay a glimpse into the lives of those who lived and died by the List's profits during the Georgian era. Hallie Rubenhold has collected the funniest, ruddiest, and most surreal entries penned by Jack Harris, "Pimp-General-of-All-England" into this book.

The Covent Garden Ladies tells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose complicated and colorful lives were brought together by the publication of Harris' List, an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses, physical characteristics and "specialties." The true history of the book is a tragicomicedy motivated by poverty, passionate love, aspiration, and shame. Its telling plunges the reader down the dark alleys of 18th-century London's underworld, a realm populated by tavern owners, pimps, punters, card sharps, and of course, a colorful range of prostitutes and brothel-keepers.