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Laddar... Le cinque donne. La storia vera delle vittime di Jack Lo Squartatore (urspr publ 2019; utgåvan 2020)av Hallie Rubenhold (Autore), Simona Fefè (Översättare)
VerksinformationThe Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper av Hallie Rubenhold (2019)
   Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.   ) mybookloveobsession | Mar 12, 2024 |  The book tells the story of the five canonical victims of Jack the Ripper. There may have been other victims, but these five - Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Mary - are the ones whom most historians accept were definitive victims of the Ripper. The book tells the story of their lives. I will easily admit that the record-searching and novel ways of finding out facts about their lives was nothing short of breathtaking. For most of the women Rubenhold can give meticulous details about their clothing, their lives, where they lived, why they turned to prostitution. As an act of research, it is excellent. As an act of entertaining and informing her readers, she falls down in my opinion. One thing that evoked the strongest of pity from me is an appendix to the book, which lists exactly what each woman owned at the time of their murders. These are some of the saddest lists I've ever seen. Polly owned only the clothes she stood up in. That's all. The other women owned little more. Feeling poor because I couldn't afford portabella mushrooms today (they were $13.00 EACH), is a far cry from the utter poverty of Victorian London. If I ever get a time machine, that is not an era to which I will venture. Two stars for research well done; three missing because it took me two weeks to read a 330 page book because it was so dull. (  ) ahef1963 | Nov 25, 2023 | There is a lot of interesting information on the lives of the poor in Victorian Britain and the double disadvantage of being female as well as poor. Some of the narrative is speculative but the author is honest where that is the case. The suggestion that the target victims were attacked while sleeping was a novel one to me and made sense. I found it an absorbing read and would award it 4 stars. ( ) kitsune_reader | Nov 23, 2023 | If you are interested in this period of history, and would like to read something that doesn't focus on the man, pick this up you won't be disappointed. ( ) Melline | Oct 24, 2023 | Two minor complaints. The first is that, like many authors depicting the Victorian era, characterizations of the workhouses and other social systems tend to be overly negative and dramatic for effect. I also suggest skipping the second to last chapter where the author sets forth her ideological views which are little more than a diatribe. Nonetheless, a worthwhile and enjoyable read. ( ) la2bkk | Sep 18, 2023 |
These were not the kinds of lives that leave an extensive record, yet Rubenhold is able to weave a vivid narrative of Victorian working-class life from small factual scraps that she unearthed in police records, government reports and church registers ...The specter of illicit sex still haunts the Ripper story, an unkillable ghost that makes the crimes seem more titillating and their victims more expendable. Rubenhold’s account, however, makes a compelling case that the real monster shadowing these women’s lives was alcoholism ... Though we know how these women’s stories play out, Rubenhold achieves much here by making us feel genuine sadness and anger at their loss. This book is a poignant but absorbing exploration of the reality of working women’s lives in the late 19th century—and how perilously easy it was for married women with children to find themselves reduced to seeking shelter in the dank courts and alleyways around Spitalfields, where the Ripper operated. It is a book that brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'Victorian values.' If the Dickensian emphasis is a touch overdone, the point remains ... Allowing that the documentary record is incomplete—the case files on three of the five murders have gone missing—Rubenhold urges us to see the victims...not as the 'fallen women' of the received record. A lively if morbid exercise in Victorian social history essential to students of Ripperiana. Hallie Rubenhold’s book about the 'canonical' victims of Jack the Ripper is, at one level, a victim impact statement ... What she has to say on that topic is as horrifying as the Ripper’s crimes ... Rubenhold is an engaging writer though, as she readily admits, these women’s lives were not well documented before they achieved their notoriety, and the reports that followed their murders are not reliable. Then, too, there is a certain grim monotony as we follow the five in their doleful circuit from poor house to flop house to the streets where they would be killed. Still, Rubenhold does a commendable job in bringing these women on stage and through their stories illuminating the appalling reality behind the veneer of Victorian complacency. PriserUppmärksammade listor
JACK THE RIPPERS OFFER VAR ALDRIG BARA PROSTITUERADE; DE VAR DÖTTRAR, FRUAR, MÖDRAR, SYSTRAR OCH ÄLSKANDE. DE VAR KVINNOR. DE VAR MÄNNISKOR.VINNARE AV THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 VINNARE AV THE GOODREADS HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 NOMINERAD TILL THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020, CWA GOLD DAGGER 2019 OCH THE CROWN FOR NON-FICTION 2019 »En ursinnig och viktig bok ... Det är inte bara en bok om de kvinnor som mördades i Whitechapel under hösten 1888, det är en bok för dem.» /THE GUARDIAN »Rubenhold har utfört ett otroligt detektivarbete.» /THE SPECTATOR, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019 »Rubenhold har skrivit en betydelsfull bok om hur fattiga kvinnor ur arbetarklassen levde under en oförlåtande tid.» /NEW YORK TIMES Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Kate och Mary Jane hade oddsen emot sig redan från dagen de föddes. De inledde livet med en börda av skuld. De föddes inte bara i arbetarklassmiljöer, de föddes som kvinnor. Det påpekar Hallie Rubenhold i denna bok om de fem kvinnor som gått till historien som Jack the Rippers kanoniska mordoffer i East End i London 1888 det finns några tänkbara mordoffer till. Men Rubenhold har inte skrivit en bok om själva morden eller om vem Jack the Ripper möjligen kan ha varit. Sådana finns det redan gott om. Hon låter istället dessa fem kvinnor träda fram ur den mytiska Londondimma och de trötta schabloner till vilka de som regel har förvisats. En av dem, Mary Jane Kelly, var prostituerad, svenskfödda Elizabeth Stride kan ha varit det periodvis, men det finns inget som tyder på att de övriga tre sålde sin kroppar. En av de mest seglivade föreställningarna om Jack the Ripper är just att han riktade in sig på prostituerade. Vad de fem kvinnorna däremot hade gemensamt var fattigdomen, alkoholproblemen och bostadslösheten. Med hjälp av de dokument som har bevarats, samtida slumskildringar och modern socialhistorisk forskning tar oss Rubenhold med till en värld där fattiga kvinnor betraktades som en förbrukningsvara och där det sociala skyddsnätet var minimalt. Och vi får, så långt de är möjligt, lära känna de fem mordoffren som de sammansatta och olikartade individer de var. Men deras baneman har för en gångs skull för att inte säga äntligen förvisats till marginalen. Hallie Rubenhold är författare och historiker. Hon är född och uppvuxen i USA men är numera bosatt i England. "Fem kvinnor" ("The Five") tilldelades The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2019 och blev 2020 nominerad till The Wolfson History Prize. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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