Hallie Rubenhold

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2019 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth. Powerful and shaming' GUARDIAN 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. Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories. WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FOR HISTORY 2019 PRAISE FOR THE FIVE 'Gripping' New York Times 'At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice... An eloquent, stirring challenge to reject the prevailing Ripper myth.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Devastatingly good. The Five will leave you in tears, of pity and of rage.' LUCY WORSLEY 'Dignity is finally returned to these unfortunate women.' PROFESSOR DAME SUE BLACK 'Haunting’ SUNDAY TIMES 'What a brilliant and necessary book' JO BAKER, author of Longbourn 'Beautifully written and with the grip of a thriller, it will open your eyes and break your heart.’ ERIN KELLY 'An outstanding work of history-from-below ... magnificent' THE SPECTATOR 'Deeply researched' THE NEW YORKER AWARDS FOR THE FIVE - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2019 - Hay Festival Book of the Year 2019 - Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction - Shortlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown Award - A New York Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, GQ, Washington Post, Oprah Winfrey Magazine and Independent Summer read/History Book of the Year - Winner of the Goodreads Choice Awards for History 2019

The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

The Five

The history of the scandalous 18th-century bestseller, 'Harris' List', an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses, physical characteristics and 'specialities' and sold over 250,000 copies over 20 years.

Pimp General Jack and the Extraordinary Story of Harris' List

The Covent Garden Ladies

Traces the high-society breakup of Lord and Lady Worsley, describing their scandalous sexual affairs, the Criminal Conversation trial through which Sir Richard Worsley attempted to sue his wife's lover, and the unexpected verdict that marked history's first celebrity divorce. 25,000 first printing.

An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce

The Lady in Red

Le cinque donne. La storia vera delle vittime di Jack Lo Squartatore

Henrietta Lightfoot, an orphan raised with her cousins, learns to fend for herself on the streets of eighteenth-century London as a courtesan, a gambler, and a feisty intellectual.

Mistress of My Fate

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Pięć

'Compelling and operatic...Reads like a modern thrillerâe(tm) SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, author of Catherine the Great &

The French Lesson

In February 1782, England opened their newspapers to read the details of Sir Richard Worsley vs George Maurice Bisset, a Criminal Conversation trial in which the aggrieved Sir Richard attempted to sue his wife's lover for an astronomical GBP20,000 in damages. This book presents a picture of aristocratic life in the Georgian era.

An Eighteenth-century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce

Lady Worsley's Whim

Un exhaustivo y contundente trabajo de investigación histórica, sobre la misoginia que ha alimentado el mito de Jack el Destripador. Un true crime devastador. Una investigación seria, profunda y rigurosa.

Las vidas olvidadas de las víctimas de Jack el Destripador

Las cinco mujeres

Las Cinco Mujeres

First published with the title Lady Worsley’s Whim, read the book behind the major new BBC drama starring Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) It was the divorce that scandalised Georgian England... She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most salacious and highly publicised divorces in history. For over two hundred years the story of Lady Worsley, her vengeful husband, and her lover, George Maurice Bisset, lay forgotten. Now Hallie Rubenhold throws open a window to a rarely seen view of Georgian England, one coloured by passion, adventure and the defiance of social convention. Originally published with the title Lady Worsley's Whim

The Scandalous Lady W

Now published with the new title THE SCANDALOUS LADY W It was the divorce that scandalised Georgian England... She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most salacious and highly publicised divorces in history. For over two hundred years the story of Lady Worsley, her vengeful husband, and her lover, George Maurice Bisset, lay forgotten. Now Hallie Rubenhold, in her impeccably researched book, throws open a window to a rarely seen view of Georgian England, one coloured by passion, adventure and the defiance of social convention. The Worsley's story, their struggles and outrageous lifestyle, promises to shock even the modern reader.

An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce

A Perfect Deceit

Sex in the City in Georgian Britain (Revealing History)

Harris List of Covent Garden Ladies

By the bestselling winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2019 for THE FIVE: THE WOMEN KILLED BY JACK THE RIPPER This is the book that inspired ITV'S hit drama HARLOTS. If you ever wondered what Jane Austen's Mr Darcy and his fellows got up to on their numerous trips to London, here is the book they would certainly have carried around ... HARRIS'S LIST OF COVENT GARDEN LADIES was a bestseller in the Eighteenth Century, shifting 250,000 copoies in an age before mass consumerism. A 'guide book' published annually at Christmas, it detailed the names, attributes and 'specialities' of the capital's prostitutes. During its heyday (1759 -95) HARRIS'S LIST was the essential accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure. Hallie Rubenhold has collected the funniest, rudest and most bizarre entries penned by Jack Harris, Pimp-General-of-all-England, into this fascinating and mischievous collection.

By the bestselling author of THE FIVE: THE WOMEN KILLED BY JACK THE RIPPER

Harris's List of the Covent Garden Ladies

'Harris's List' was a best-seller of the 18th century shifting 250,000 copies. An annual 'guide book', it detailed the names and 'specialities' of London's prostitutes. Hallie Rubenhold has collected the funniest, rudest and most surreal entries penned by Jack Harris in this book.

Harris's List

The Harlot's Handbook

Susanne Höbel

Das Leben der Frauen, die von Jack the Ripper ermordet wurden

If you ever wondered what Jane Austen's Mr Darcy and his fellows got up to on their numerous trips to London, here is the book they would certainly have carried around ... HARRIS'S LIST OF COVENT GARDEN LADIES was a bestseller in the Eighteenth Century, shifting 250,000 copoies in an age before mass consumerism. A 'guide book' published annually at Christmas, it detailed the names, attributes and 'specialities' of the capital's prostitutes. During its heyday (1759 -95) HARRIS'S LIST was the essential accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure. Hallie Rubenhold has collected the funniest, rudest and most bizarre entries penned by Jack Harris, Pimp-General-of-all-England, into this fascinating and mischievous collection.

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