Новинки Хэлли Рубенхолд

Поллі, Енні, Елізабет, Кетрін і Мері Джейн — п’ять імен, які загубилися в газетних хроніках та поліційних звітах 1888 року, затьмарені легендарним образом їхнього вбивці. П’ять непростих життів з однаковим кінцем. П’ять канонічних жертв Джека-Різника. У своєму ґрунтовному дослідженні в жанрі true crime Геллі Рубенголд повертає цим безмовним привидам голоси і розвінчує загальновідомий міф про те, що Різник полював лише на повій.

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 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.

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.