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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
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I felt this was a well researched analysis of Victorian London and the people who were left vulnerable by the system. Absolutely devastating at times but made some excellent commentary on how certain victims are represented and made me reconsider how I approach this case or indeed other cases.
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Author succeeds in making these women more than victims of a horrible man. She explores how their lives left them vulnerable to attack and places them at the center of their own stories.
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In some ways, this is a book about all the ways life was horrible for lower class Victorian women. The biographies themselves are interesting and engaging, if a bit sad. The most important part of the book, however, is the conclusion. Rubenhold addresses the "Jack the Ripper industry" and fascination about him in the context of violence against women then and now. People spend their lives trying to figure out who the perpetrator of violence was and give no consideration to the identity of the victims. A misogynistic, violent man gets notoriety while the women he killed are slandered as prostitutes who likely got what they deserved. In providing a fact based, well researched set of biographies, Rubenhold restores the stories of these women as humans who, flawed like all of us, deserve better than we have given them.
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dark
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tense
medium-paced