Éditeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN papier: 9780358299615
Parution : 2020
Code produit : 1412405
Catégorisation :
Livres /
Sciences humaines /
Histoire /
Ouvrages généraux
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Livre papier | En rupture de stock** |
Prix membre : 22,49 $ Prix non-membre : 24,99 $ |
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**Ce produits est en rupture de stock mais sera expédié dès qu'ils sera disponible.
Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffeehouses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women. For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that "the Ripper" preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, but it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty, homelessness, and rampant misogyny. They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time--but their greatest misfortune was to be born women.
Livre papier | 0 |
Prix membre : 35,10 $ Prix non-membre : 39,00 $ |
Éditeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN : 9781328663818
Parution : 2019