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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women by Hallie Rubenhold
20 reviews
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.epeolatri's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Infidelity, Addiction, Sexism, Mental illness, Misogyny, Violence, Classism, Death, Alcoholism, Child death, Alcohol, and Murder
Moderate: Cursing, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content
gattolinos_nerdy_nook's review against another edition
4.5
I found myself lost in the past listening to each woman's life and how much hardship she had to go through, and at the same time getting a glimpse into the 19th century London.
Learning more about the everyday living of the working class, opposed to the high society that has been better documented and preserved over the years, was a new outlook on what the 19th century expected of society and what support was offered to them.
I found myself talking to anyone who would listen to me about this book, and would recommend it to anyone who likes learning about the 19th century history.
Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol
Moderate: Sexual content, Death, Pregnancy, Violence, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Infertility, Physical abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, and Murder
98romantic's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Confinement and Abandonment
maddalenacesco's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Medical content
mwreadings's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence
rhiannonxgrace's review against another edition
5.0
What an incredible book. I really enjoy Rubenhold’s writing style and find her to be an easy read, which can’t be said about all historians! This was a rough read, and more than once I had to pause and step away for a little while simply due to the content. But I am so glad I read this. It’s so important to move the focus back on to the womens’ lives and show them as fully fledged people, something that is often discarded when it comes to the Whitechapel murders.
Moderate: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Trafficking, and Violence
rosalind's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Police brutality, Sexism, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Death of parent, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, and Toxic relationship
daisymaytwizell's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcoholism
Moderate: Murder, Body horror, and Child death
Minor: Sexual content, Trafficking, and Toxic relationship
While this is a book around the Jack the Ripper victims, the focus is primarily on their lives before the murder - the murders themselves are not shown or described in detail, and the horrors of being poor in Victorian London are discussed sympathetically and by necessity.erinjulia's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Body horror, Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Terminal illness, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Infidelity, Infertility, Gore, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Addiction, Child death, and Death