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A review by dilchh
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
4.0
It strikes me odd that Jack the Ripper became so famous for killing what I presume as a small number of victims, compared to other serial killers. Is it because he's never caught and so the mystery and his fame thickened and increased? That may be so, but it also strikes me as odd that we rarely talked about his victims; reducing them merely as prostitutes. This book has opened my interest and eyes to the canonical five victims of the ever famous Jack the Ripper and it did not disappoint.
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To put it simply, the stories of the five canonical victims of Jack the Ripper are obviously tragic if not heartbreaking. I would say it's both actually. Through this book, the author brought me to the personal lives of the five canonical victims; from their early lives to the day that they are no more. And one other thread that times all five together, apart from being Jack the Ripper's victim, is society's constraints towards women in the Victorian era.
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It's frustrating and also eye opening to read their stories and it made me felt that we're going to be talking about Jack the Ripper, might as well we talk about the victims to. And if you can spend time trying to know and understand Jack the Ripper, you should make the same effort for the victims.
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To put it simply, the stories of the five canonical victims of Jack the Ripper are obviously tragic if not heartbreaking. I would say it's both actually. Through this book, the author brought me to the personal lives of the five canonical victims; from their early lives to the day that they are no more. And one other thread that times all five together, apart from being Jack the Ripper's victim, is society's constraints towards women in the Victorian era.
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It's frustrating and also eye opening to read their stories and it made me felt that we're going to be talking about Jack the Ripper, might as well we talk about the victims to. And if you can spend time trying to know and understand Jack the Ripper, you should make the same effort for the victims.