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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
64 reviews
mattyyreadsbooks's review against another edition
3.75
Moderate: Addiction, Violence, Trafficking, Alcoholism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder
violetturtledove's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction and Alcoholism
Moderate: Classism, Death of parent, Mental illness, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy
Minor: Child death, Trafficking, and Physical abuse
karenreadsbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Murder, Addiction, and Alcoholism
Minor: Body horror
Focuses on the lives of these women rather than their gruesome deathsjenny_d's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infertility, Sexism, Trafficking, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse
vixenreader's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Body shaming, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Child death, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Grief, Trafficking, Gun violence, Infidelity, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Rape
Minor: Racism, Gore, and Xenophobia
There is a lot of talk about the abuse within the workhouses and dissolving of familial dynamics.walkie_check's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Classism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, Miscarriage, Kidnapping, and Child death
louiseisabed's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Trafficking, Death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Addiction, and Alcohol
Moderate: Murder
jordangddrd's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Addiction and Alcoholism
dckathleen's review against another edition
4.5
This book is a biography of the canonical five victims. It traces their lives with as much information as is available and contextualizes it by explaining what it was like to be a poor woman in Victorian London. In some cases we learn about how these women grew up and then about their adult lives. We learn about marriages and children and glimpses of happiness. We read about how working people hovered over an abyss of dire poverty at all times, where an illness or turn of circumstances could take a family from a safe apartment to a workhouse or homelessness in the blink of an eye. Once they were in that position it was nearly impossible to get out.
Several of these women were alcoholics, a few did engage in sex work, but several did not, they were dismissed as prostitutes after their murders because they were women in the poorest parts of London. Several had children. There's very little concrete information on one woman, but even in her case the author gives us an idea of what her life might have been like.
The author doesn't describe their deaths at all nor does she speculate about the killer. This book is about the women.
I found this to be a compassionate book and even beyond these particular women I feel like I have a better understanding of the incredibly tenuous lives of poor families in this time.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Classism, Addiction, and Child death
rach59r's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Murder and Sexism
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, and Classism
Minor: Addiction, Child death, Violence, and Classism