The Five
The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Ranked #8 in Windows, Ranked #18 in British History — see more rankings.
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, 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 coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.
What they had in common was the year of their... more
Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, 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 coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.
What they had in common was the year of their... more
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Rankings by Category
The Five is ranked in the following categories:
- #66 in Alcoholism
- #81 in Crime
- #60 in England History
- #19 in Five
- #29 in Historical Nonfiction
- #71 in London
- #54 in Serial Killer
- #19 in True Crime
- #58 in Victorian
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