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Title: Shadows of the Reaper

Chapter 1: The Awakening

London, a city shrouded in darkness, where the streets whispered secrets and the shadows held untold horrors. It was in this macabre setting that the Grim Ripper emerged, a figure of pure malevolence, haunting the city's darkest corners.

No one knew where the Grim Ripper came from, or what drove him to commit such heinous acts. Some believed he was a supernatural being, a creature born from the depths of hell itself. Others whispered that he was a deranged serial killer, driven by a twisted desire for power and control.

Chapter 2: The Dance of Death

The Grim Ripper's reign of terror began with a series of gruesome murders that sent shockwaves through the city. Each victim was found with their throat brutally slashed, their lifeblood staining the cobblestone streets. The police were baffled, unable to comprehend the sheer brutality of the killings.

Detective Emily Parker, a seasoned investigator with a haunted past, was assigned to the case. Determined to bring the Grim Ripper to justice, she delved into the darkest corners of London, following a trail of blood and despair.

Chapter 3: Whispers in the Night

As Emily delved deeper into the investigation, she discovered a hidden world lurking beneath the surface of London. A secret society of occultists, known as the Brotherhood of Shadows, worshipped the Grim Ripper as a deity of death. They believed that by appeasing him, they could gain immortality and power.

Emily's pursuit of the Grim Ripper led her to the heart of the Brotherhood's lair, a dilapidated mansion hidden in the depths of the city. There, she faced unimaginable horrors, as the Grim Ripper's true nature was revealed.

Chapter 4: The Final Confrontation

In a climactic showdown, Emily confronted the Grim Ripper, their battle echoing through the halls of the mansion. The air was thick with the stench of death, as the two adversaries fought for their lives.

As the final blow was struck, the Grim Ripper's true identity was revealed. He was not a supernatural being or a deranged killer, but a tormented soul seeking revenge for the injustices he had suffered in life. His thirst for blood was driven by a desire to expose the corruption that plagued London's elite.

Chapter 5: Shadows of Redemption

With the Grim Ripper's reign of terror finally ended, London breathed a collective sigh of relief. The city slowly began to heal, but the scars left by the Grim Ripper's atrocities would forever remain.

Emily, forever changed by her encounter with the Grim Ripper, continued to fight for justice, determined to ensure that the horrors of the past would never be forgotten. She became a beacon of hope in a city still haunted by shadows.

In the end, the Grim Ripper's legacy was not one of fear, but of redemption. His story served as a reminder that even in the darkest of times, there is always a glimmer of light, waiting to guide us out of the abyss.

Note: The novel "Shadows of the Reaper" is a work of fiction and does not endorse or glorify violence. It is intended for entertainment purposes only.

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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, Elisabeth, 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 coffeehouses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women. For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that “the Ripper” preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, but it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold

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 DESCRIPTION : 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, Elisabeth, 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 coffeehouses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women. For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that “the Ripper” preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, but it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold

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The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

3 stars

The Five, read for my Victorian Murder module, takes you back to the grim streets of Victorian London to uncover the lives of the victims of Jack the Ripper. The book aims to focus on the lives of these women amidst so much research on their deaths and attempts to move beyond their identities as merely just prostitutes, restoring humanity to their stories. I liked how the book took on a fresh perspective and gave a true insight into lower class living. The claim to focus on the untold lives of the women remained true, with not one word focusing on Jack the Ripper or speculation about his identity as most research does. It was unsurprisingly quite a depressing read as the conditions for these women and the burden of their gender proved fatal. The one thing that remains problematic to me is that it convinces you to believe these women were not actually prostitutes but merely unfairly classified due to Victorian prejudices against the lower classes. Does that mean if they were prostitutes, their lives would have been deemed any less worthy? Of course the book is based mainly on speculation, as is most JTR research, but whether Rubenhold is correct or not in concluding these women were not sex workers should not take away from their right to live and our respect.

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

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, Elisabeth, 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 coffeehouses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women. For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that “the Ripper” preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, but it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty, homelessness, and rampant misogyny. They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time—but their greatest misfortune was to be born women.

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Books about True Crime

1. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 

2. Helter Skelter by Curt Gentry and Vincent Bugliosi

3. The Innocent Man by John Grishman

4. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

5. Zodiac by Robert Graysmith

6. People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry

7. Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial by Rabia Chaudry

8. The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman

9. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

10. The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

11. The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy by Elizabeth Kendall

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The Five: The Untold Stories of the Women Killed By Jack The Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold.

This piece of historical non-fiction reads like a thriller and tells the heart-breaking stories of the five women murdered by Jack the Ripper. The book is split into five chapters and within each chapter, there are sections that chronologically explore the lives of Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane, leading up to the moments before their death in 1888. Rubenhold is able to construct a moving narrative through engaging with formerly unseen archival material and is able to piece together shreds of information using Workhouse documents and censuses. With added historical context, the lives of these women take shape and we begin to get an insight into their personalities and the words they might have spoken.

Rubenbhold’s book enables you to develop feelings of emotional attachment coupled hopelessness and despair. As each chapter starts off with the environment in which the women grew up, and with 4 of the 5 victims growing up outside of London, one wonders how they ended up on the streets of Whitechapel in 1888. I found myself drawn into the lives of each of these women, particularly Annie Chapman who had suffered many bereavements growing up, whose family were able to enter into the lower middle class and had maintained a considerably comfortable life in her family’s country estate in Berkshire. Eventually, it was her battle with alcoholism that ostracised her from her family and led her live a life many saw as unredeemable.

As each chapter came to a close, I felt deeply for these women and the pain they carried with them. Rubenhold’s book debunks the popular narrative that the Ripper’s victims were nothing more than prostitutes. By rejecting this common notion championed by Ripperologists, Rubenhold restores the victims humanity and dignity. Destitute and invisible, in 1888 these women found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Five seeks to redress this balance and moves its focus from the perpetrator and approaches the murders in a more holistic manner. Examining the society that created the killer and the victim, as well as the impact the murder had on the family of the victim and their community.

As many schools include the murders of Jack the Ripper in units on Victorian Britain, I hope the material in The Five offers an alternative direction. Instead of focusing on demystifying the identity of the Ripper, I hope they chose to use Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Kate and Mary Jane’s lives to delve deeper into life in the Victorian era.

Rubenhold in this feminist historical analysis elequontly redresses the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth for decades.

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Genre: Nonfiction, History, True Crime, Biography

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Synopsis:

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 murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women. For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that ‘the Ripper’ preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty, homelessness and rampant misogyny. They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time – but their greatest misfortune was to be born a woman.

*Opinions*

I find Nonfiction books hard to rate because I am not an expert on the material, even something that I am fascinated with like the case of Jack the Ripper. I never feel as if I am qualified to rate the material because I didn’t spend hours upon hours researching the topic to write about it so my rating are even more subjective than they would be with a work of fiction. That being said, I was instantly pulled into the Victorian England that Rubenhold brought to the reader through her extensive research into the world that these five women lived and died in. I also really appreciate that Rubenhold wanted to take the narrative away from the man who ended their lives and more about the circumstances that lead these five women to be in a situation that he could take advantage of and make them some of the best known victims in history. It was never something I considered and something I feel gets lost in a lot of true crime focused media, forgetting the victim because we are so focused on the killers. While a shift is starting with novels like The Five and podcasts such as My Favorite Murder trying to make sure that the victims get just as much air time, if not more, than the killer. Once again, since I didn’t do the research, I am not going to comment on the information that Rubenhold provides. However, I appreciate that Rubenhold did not just focus on the five women, but also their families, their friends, and their life from birth to death in most cases. Rubenhold also points out that, historically, there is no evidence to show that some of the women ever participated in sex work, but the police refused to change their narrative that Jack the Ripper was the killer of sex workers. I don’t know if it is comforting or depressing that it doesn’t seem like the police or reporters have changed all that much since that time. Rubenhold also brings Victorian England to life, and not just the beautiful parts that are in all movies and television shows, but the parts of the city that were inhibited by those who worked every day to barely afford a room and those who couldn’t even afford a room. Rubenhold also highlights the hypocrisy and misogyny that women faced in all areas of life. It is a life that I couldn’t even imagine and to read what they all suffered due to alcohol, men, or some combination of trauma and grief made their stories even more tragic. While I enjoy about learning about these women, sometimes I felt as if Rubenhold swung a little too far in the other direction. I do not think that anything these women did or did not do would justify their horrendous murder, but some of their habits were almost painfully framed in a more favorable light. I won’t hold this against the author, they have been forgotten or portrayed are more than dead bodies all these years, but there were times when I was reading that I just felt like a little too much credit was given to some of the women’s choices. Then again, I did not do the thousands of hours of research to write the book so it might just be my pessimistic nature. Still, these women deserve their stories to be told and treated with care and respect that they rarely got alive or dead. If you are interested in Jack the Ripper, Victorian England, or how society will spin any story so that it is the most sensational it could be and what will make everyone else feel better, than this story will be of interest to you. Hallie Rubenhold did extensive research and make the story as fascinating and interesting as the stories written about the women when they died. However, this time Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are the focus and treated like people, which was something they deserved both in life and death.

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11/7 Book Deals

Good morning, everyone! So today it appears as though there are a ton of nonfiction titles on sale, so I’ve just basically selected a handful to show here in case that’s your thing! I actually have a physical copy of that Ninth Street Women and geez is that a door-stopper--I’d say it’s pretty much a steal to get it for like under $4. Anyway, I hope you all are having a great week and a great day and happy reading!

Find past book deals here–many of which are still on sale!

Today’s Deals:

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel - https://amzn.to/2WQGDfK

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The Five. 

The Untold Lives of the Women killed by Jack the Ripper/The Lives of Jack The Ripper's Women

By Hallie Rubenhold (2019)

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 murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women. For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that "the Ripper" preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty, homelessness and rampant misogyny. They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time—but their greatest misfortune was to be born a woman.

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