The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper is a book by historian Hallie Rubenhold, published by Doubleday in 2019. In it, she examines the lives of the "canonical five", the five women generally believed to have been killed by Jack the Ripper in the Whitechapel murders. She came to the conclusion that only two of the five, Mary Jane Kelly and Elizabeth Stride, were prostitutes. In some cases they may have been targeted by the Ripper just because they were sleeping rough.[1][2][3][4]

The Five was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize in 2020 and won the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize valued at £50,000.[5] [6]

References
  1. Cain, Sian (2019-03-01). "Hallie Rubenhold: 'Jack the Ripper's victims have just become corpses. Can't we do better?'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  2. "'Untold story' of Ripper victims to Doubleday | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  3. Goodwin, Review by Daisy (2019-02-17). "Review: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold — a poignant, absorbing read". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  4. DeGroot, Gerard (2019-02-15). "Review: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold — the victims tell their tales". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  5. "Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist revealed | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  6. https://www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/past-winners/2020-winners/the-five/


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