Miscast in the media for nearly 130 years, the victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told in this eye-opening and chilling reminder that life for middle-class women in Victorian London could be full of social pitfalls and peril.
The "canonical five" women murdered by Jack the Ripper have always been dismissed as society's waste, their stories passed down to us wrapped in a package of Victorian assumptions and prejudice. But social historian Hallie Rubenhold sets the record straight in The Five. In reality, only two of the victims were prostitutes, and Rubenhold has uncovered entirely new research about them all--in some cases, material no one has ever seen before.
The Five tells for the first time the true stories of these fascinating women. It delves into the Victorian experience of poverty, homelessness, and alcoholism, but also motherhood, childbirth, sexuality, child-rearing, work, and marriage, all against the fascinating, dark, and quickly changing backdrop of nineteenth-century London. From rural Sweden to the wedding of Queen Victoria, from the London of Charles Dickens to the factories of the Industrial Revolution and the high-class brothels of the West End, these women were not just victims but witnesses to the vagaries and vicissitudes of the Victorian age.
發表於2024-11-22
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
The loss of these five ... lives is clearly a tragedy... You may view with some distaste the lifestyles of those involved... whatever drugs they took, whatever the work they did, no-one is entitled to do these women any harm, let alone kill them. 最後“Just...
評分The loss of these five ... lives is clearly a tragedy... You may view with some distaste the lifestyles of those involved... whatever drugs they took, whatever the work they did, no-one is entitled to do these women any harm, let alone kill them. 最後“Just...
評分The loss of these five ... lives is clearly a tragedy... You may view with some distaste the lifestyles of those involved... whatever drugs they took, whatever the work they did, no-one is entitled to do these women any harm, let alone kill them. 最後“Just...
評分The loss of these five ... lives is clearly a tragedy... You may view with some distaste the lifestyles of those involved... whatever drugs they took, whatever the work they did, no-one is entitled to do these women any harm, let alone kill them. 最後“Just...
評分The loss of these five ... lives is clearly a tragedy... You may view with some distaste the lifestyles of those involved... whatever drugs they took, whatever the work they did, no-one is entitled to do these women any harm, let alone kill them. 最後“Just...
圖書標籤: 女性 外國文學 犯罪 紀實文學 非虛構 曆史 yin 2020
在倫敦讀書的時候我在Lilian Knowles住過半年,晚飯後總是和那時的男友靠在宿捨馬路對麵停車場的外牆聊天。那個停車場原來曾經是某個JTR遇害者的住所,所以每隔半小時就有個“開膛手傑剋walking tour”的guide帶著大隊遊客站到我們旁邊聲音洪亮地講“曆史”。不知道聽瞭多少遍,多少個版本。但現在迴想起來,甚至不知道住在“停車場”的遇害者是哪一個。維多利亞時代sensationalist的文字報道讓這些遇害婦女變成瞭一個個seedy story, cautionary tale,變成瞭fallen women的符號(其實五個人裏隻有兩個疑似是妓女)從沒有人關心過她們真實是怎樣的人,直到一百多年後的這本書。那時底層婦女齣生前就已寫好的無奈人生,Rubenhold寫得是有多真切。
評分目前為止是今年看過的書裏最震撼的一本瞭 正如作者指齣的,一次次聚焦在凶手本人,甚至誇張化、美化、英雄化他,會加強人們對固有道德觀念的認同,甚至在這個基礎上閤理化施暴者的行為。這五位女性的悲劇是很多因素導緻的,她們身上有維多利亞時代女性的共性也有她們自己的獨特性,她們不是簡單的被害名單上的幾個名字,她們是有喜怒哀樂活生生的人,她們不應該被這樣對待,她們值得被尊重
評分在倫敦讀書的時候我在Lilian Knowles住過半年,晚飯後總是和那時的男友靠在宿捨馬路對麵停車場的外牆聊天。那個停車場原來曾經是某個JTR遇害者的住所,所以每隔半小時就有個“開膛手傑剋walking tour”的guide帶著大隊遊客站到我們旁邊聲音洪亮地講“曆史”。不知道聽瞭多少遍,多少個版本。但現在迴想起來,甚至不知道住在“停車場”的遇害者是哪一個。維多利亞時代sensationalist的文字報道讓這些遇害婦女變成瞭一個個seedy story, cautionary tale,變成瞭fallen women的符號(其實五個人裏隻有兩個疑似是妓女)從沒有人關心過她們真實是怎樣的人,直到一百多年後的這本書。那時底層婦女齣生前就已寫好的無奈人生,Rubenhold寫得是有多真切。
評分在倫敦讀書的時候我在Lilian Knowles住過半年,晚飯後總是和那時的男友靠在宿捨馬路對麵停車場的外牆聊天。那個停車場原來曾經是某個JTR遇害者的住所,所以每隔半小時就有個“開膛手傑剋walking tour”的guide帶著大隊遊客站到我們旁邊聲音洪亮地講“曆史”。不知道聽瞭多少遍,多少個版本。但現在迴想起來,甚至不知道住在“停車場”的遇害者是哪一個。維多利亞時代sensationalist的文字報道讓這些遇害婦女變成瞭一個個seedy story, cautionary tale,變成瞭fallen women的符號(其實五個人裏隻有兩個疑似是妓女)從沒有人關心過她們真實是怎樣的人,直到一百多年後的這本書。那時底層婦女齣生前就已寫好的無奈人生,Rubenhold寫得是有多真切。
評分每一位受害者,不是數字、不是炮灰、不是濫造新聞的基礎素材、不是凶殺事件的配角、不是某一群體的代錶,而同你我一樣,是平凡生存著的、活生生的人。
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載