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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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».