The Hidden Lives of Jack the Ripper's Victims - Couverture rigide

Hume, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1526738600 ISBN 13 : 9781526738608

Editeur : Pen & Sword History, 2019

Synopsis

Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly are inextricably linked in history. Their names might not be instantly recognisable, and the identity of their murderer may have eluded detectives and historians throughout the years, but there is no mistaking the infamy of Jack the Ripper. For nine weeks during the autumn of 1888, the Whitechapel Murderer brought terror to London s East End, slashing women s throats and disembowelling them. London s most famous serial killer has been pored over time and again, yet his victims have been sorely neglected, reduced to the simple label: prostitute. The lives of these five women are rags-to-riches-to-rags stories of the most tragic kind. There was a time in each of their lives when these poor women had a job, money, a home and a family. Hardworking, determined and fiercely independent individuals, it was bad luck, or a wrong turn here or there, that left them wretched and destitute. Ignored by the press and overlooked by historians, it is time their stories were told.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Now an author and freelance feature writer, Dr Robert Hume was former head of history at Hillview School, Tonbridge, and Clarendon House Grammar School, Ramsgate, Kent. He writes regularly for magazines such as BBC History, History Today and the Irish Examiner. This is his first book for Pen and Sword.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pen & Sword History
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526738600
• ISBN 13: 9781526738608
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible