![]() ![]() I found it beyond injustice that these women were defined solely by the way they died, while their killer was elevated to mythology.” Ian Bell, composer of the opera Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel. “They’re answers in a pub quiz and that’s wrong. Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. ![]() They argued with their siblings, they wept, they dreamed, they hurt, they enjoyed small triumphs. ![]() They are worth more to us than the empty human shells we have taken them for they were children who cried for their mothers, they were young women who fell in love they endured childbirth, the death of parents they laughed, and they celebrated Christmas. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to follow their paths through both the gloom and the light. My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. ![]()
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