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

by Hallie Rubenhold

If the Whitechapel murders served to expose anything, it was the unspeakably horrendous conditions in which the poor of that district lived. The encampment and riots at Trafalgar Square were merely a conspicuous manifestation of what had been chronically ailing in the East End and impoverished parts of London. It was a cough hacked in the face of the establishment. The emergence of Jack the Ripper was a louder and more violent one still.