作者：HallieRubenhold
出版社：HoughtonMifflinHarcourt
副标题：TheUntoldLivesoftheWomenKilledbyJacktheRipper
出版年：2019-4-9
页数：336
定价：USD0.04
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9781328663818
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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.
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如标题和简介所说，这本不是关于JTR的，是关于JTR所谓的“canonical five”五个受害人的。详细描写了受害人在当时社会环境下因为种种原因失去“身份”不得不流入白教堂地区，并且在死亡后又被剥夺了声音和自我。让我想起之前没看完的那本关于JTR的书，如果你不想成为ripperology的一部分，写这样的书才是应该的吧。另外作者指出实际上五人之中只有两个能肯定是妓女，其中一个已经改行了，其他三…
为这些女性默哀。最后对这五个女子逝去的时候穿衣着装的描述，让我动容。
Covent Garden Ladies作者的新著，拿了今年的Baillie Gifford Award
目前为止是今年看过的书里最震撼的一本了 正如作者指出的，一次次聚焦在凶手本人，甚至夸张化、美化、英雄化他，会加强人们对固有道德观念的认同，甚至在这个基础上合理化施暴者的行为。这五位女性的悲剧是很多因素导致的，她们身上有维多利亚时代女性的共性也有她们自己的独特性，她们不是简单的被害名单上的几个名字，她们是有喜怒哀乐活生生的人，她们不应该被这样对待，她们值得被尊重
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