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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
44 reviews
thinkingcatss's review
5.0
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
gabriella_brown's review
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism
Minor: Suicide, Trafficking, and Pregnancy
tiernanhunter's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism
siobhanward's review against another edition
4.0
Anyway, I'm glad I wound up trying this again because it was a great and informative read. I loved how Rubenhold told the women's stories, focusing on their lives rather than their deaths. It was a new angle for the Jack the Ripper story and it was well done. I'm really glad I didn't miss out on this one in the end!
Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Gore
Minor: Death of parent
jacs63's review
5.0
It gives a face, a name and a voice, to the 5 victims of JtR.
We so often only hear about the perpetrator, and not the victims.
The book discusses the fact that thru the falsehood and misinformation spread by the Metropolitan Police and journalists at the time, it was convenient for us all to think that JtR only killed prostitutes.
Only 2 of the 5 were actually known to be sex workers.
There is no evidence that the other 3 were sex workers at all, but I for one believed the misinformation that was spread.
One thing that all 5 women shared was that they are all alcoholics.
I wonder why??
Maybe because cheap alcohol was the only thing that dulled the pain, if only for a while, of the poverty; the hunger; the homelessness; the early death of family members, including their own spouses or their own babies/ children; the death sentence that they were given if their spouse died and left them, and their children, destitute; their treatment as a woman with no legal rights; the living hell that was the 'Workhouse'; the lack of education for woman; the disease; the filth and vermin; the lack of medicines; the lack of clean water and sanitation; the violence; the lack of hope, respect and dignity etc etc etc.
Basically the treatment of women/girls in the 1800's.
It's full of interesting and informative historical facts about what life, and death, was like, for women in particular, in the Victorian 1800's.
It's sad and horrific and devastating. It's a book that won't leave me for a while, I don't think.
Probably not a book to read if you are depressed or feeling melancholic.
We will never know who JtR was.
But we can know who his victims were.
These women were daughters; sisters; wives; lovers; mothers; friends.
May they never be forgotten.
RIP and love, Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Kate and Mary Jane.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic
librarymouse's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Police brutality, Dementia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Forced institutionalization
Minor: Incest
emilo's review
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism and Sexism
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Slavery, Violence, Murder, and Sexual harassment
pedanther's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicide, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy
Minor: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Rape, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Death of parent, and Abandonment
avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Misogyny, Sexism, and Alcohol
Moderate: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, and Death of parent
staceyinthesticks's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Murder, and Pregnancy
Minor: Drug use and Death of parent