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The Five
- The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
- Narrado por: Louise Brealey
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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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, 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, 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 a woman.
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The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces - and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval - she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan.
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Lovely microhistory
- De JS en 07-26-21
De: Amy Stanley
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The Housekeeper's Tale
- The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House
- De: Tessa Boase
- Narrado por: Tessa Boase
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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The Housekeeper's Tale reveals the personal sacrifices, bitter disputes and driving ambition that shaped these women's careers. Using secret diaries, unpublished letters, and the neglected service archives of our stately homes, Tessa Boase tells the extraordinary stories of five working women who ran some of Britain's most prominent households.
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Utterly intriguing
- De Pamela Jane en 09-14-17
De: Tessa Boase
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London in the Nineteenth Century
- De: Jerry White
- Narrado por: Neil Gardner
- Duración: 21 h y 7 m
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Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. This was the London of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday and Disraeli. Most of all it was the London of Dickens. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'.
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SO DETAILED..SO VERY VERY DETAILED.
- De Count B en 06-16-19
De: Jerry White
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Servants
- A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times
- De: Lucy Lethbridge
- Narrado por: Helen Stern
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From the immense staff running a lavish Edwardian estate and the lonely maid-of-all-work cooking in a cramped middle-class house to the poor child doing chores in a slightly less poor household, servants were essential to the British way of life. They were hired not only for their skills but also to demonstrate the social standing of their employers - even as they were required to tread softly and blend into the background. More than simply the laboring class serving the upper crust - as popular culture would have us believe - they were a diverse group that shaped and witnessed major changes in the modern home, family, and social order.
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Interesting but gaps in info, narration difficult
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De: Lucy Lethbridge
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Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends
- De: Dr. Catie Gilchrist
- Narrado por: Emma Grant Williams
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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Most of us today rarely see a dead body. In 19th-century Sydney, when health was precarious and workplaces and the busy city streets were often dangerous, witnessing a death was rather common. And any death that was sudden or suspicious would be investigated by the coroner. Henry Shiell was the Sydney city coroner from 1866 to 1889. In the course of his unusually long career, he delved into the lives, loves, crimes, homes, and workplaces of colonial Sydneysiders.
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very interesting and enlightening
- De Barbara J Allison en 08-29-19
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The Grandees
- America's Sephardic Elite
- De: Stephen Birmingham
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 13 h y 43 m
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In 1654, 23 Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of a proud orthodox sect that had served as royal advisors and honored professionals under Moorish rule in Spain and Portugal but were then exiled by intolerant monarchs. A small, closed, and intensely private community, the Sephardim soon established themselves as businessmen and financiers. They became powerful forces in society, with some, like banker Haym Salomon, even providing financial support to George Washington's army during the American Revolution.
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Amazing American History - Jews Made a Profound Impact
- De Jimmy Rosen en 12-27-21
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The Last Jews in Berlin
- De: Leonard Gross
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, approximately 160,000 Jews called Berlin home. By 1943 less than 5,000 remained in the nation's capital, the epicenter of Nazism, and by the end of the war, that number had dwindled to 1,000. All the others had died in air raids, starved to death, committed suicide, or been shipped off to the death camps. In this captivating and harrowing book, Leonard Gross details the real-life stories of a dozen Jewish men and women who spent the final 27 months of World War II underground, hiding in plain sight.
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Too many characters at once.
- De Andrew Miller en 12-21-23
De: Leonard Gross
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America's Women
- 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (Unabridged Selections)
- De: Gail Collins
- Narrado por: Jane Alexander
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
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America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America.
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Not all there
- De Dirk Williams en 04-02-12
De: Gail Collins
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Jefferson's Daughters
- Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
- De: Catherine Kerrison
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
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Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. Although the three women shared a father, the similarities end there. Martha and Maria received a fine convent school education while they lived with their father during his diplomatic posting in Paris. Once they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of early America. Harriet Hemings followed a different path. She escaped slavery — apparently with the assistance of Jefferson himself.
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Don't waste money on this book.
- De Amazon Customer en 02-17-18
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
- My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
- De: Lucette Lagnado
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado recreates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. With Nasser’s nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father, Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white sharkskin suit, loses everything and departs with the family for any land that will take them. The poverty and hardships they encounter in their flight from Cairo to Paris to New York are strikingly juxtaposed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind.
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A Touching Memoir of a Jewish Family in Egypt
- De Brustar en 06-10-20
De: Lucette Lagnado
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Vanderbilt
- The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
- De: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Narrado por: Anderson Cooper
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
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New York Times best-selling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times best-selling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty - his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.
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Interesting Approach to a Well Known History
- De HistoryNerd en 09-24-21
De: Anderson Cooper, y otros
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Nazi Wives
- The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
- De: James Wyllie
- Narrado por: Dalya Raphael
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann - names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margarete, Lina, Ilse, and Gerda. These are the women behind the infamous men - complex individuals with distinctive personalities who were captivated by Hitler and whose everyday lives were governed by Nazi ideology. Throughout the rise and fall of Nazism these women loved and lost, raised families, and quarreled with their husbands and each other, all the while jostling for position with the Fuhrer himself.
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Scary
- De Three River en 05-15-21
De: James Wyllie
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Upstairs & Downstairs
- My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid
- De: Hilda Newman, Tim Tate
- Narrado por: Helen Lloyd
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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The year was 1935: the twilight of the English aristocracy. It was a time of wealth and glamour; of lavish balls and evening gowns; of tiaras and a coronation. As personal maid to Lady Coventry, Hilda Newman had a unique insight into the leisured life of one of Britain's most noble families. In her fascinating memoir of life upstairs and down, Hilda takes us back to this period between the wars; a gilded era which would soon be dramatically changed by the Second World War.
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Wonderful listen!!
- De J.T. en 09-25-19
De: Hilda Newman, y otros
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Amazing story
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Dozens of theories have attempted to resolve the mystery of the identity of Jack the Ripper, the world's most famous serial killer. Ripperologist Robert House contends that we may have known the answer all along. The head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department at the time of the murders thought Aaron Kozminski was guilty, but he lacked the legal proof to convict him. By exploring Kozminski's life, Robert House here builds a strong circumstantial case against him.
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A restrained and humane account
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The Mammoth Book of the Jack the Ripper
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Charmingly amateurish sniping
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Amazing story
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Excellent, awesome and educational!
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Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to Blackwell's, as well as the period's city officials, reformers, and journalists (including the famous Nellie Bly). Damnation Island re-creates what daily life was like on the island....
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Fascinating!
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Who Was Jack the Ripper?
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The Whitechapel Murders of 1888 have remained unsolved for over 130 years and hundreds of theories have been suggested as to the killer's identity. Despite numerous books claiming to unmask the infamous Victorian villain, none have come close…until now. The authors of this book are all members of H Division Crime Club, the world's largest body of experts on the Jack the Ripper murders. They have all come together for the first time in history to deliver their own personal research into each suspect and to finally nail down the identity of the man known as Jack the Ripper.
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The Suspects, plain and Simple
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The Big Book of Espionage
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Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler is back with a new anthology that has gathered the intel on the world's greatest secret agents, declassified here for the first time.
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What a great bunch of stories.
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In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada, a death toll with almost no precedent. Poison was his weapon of choice. Largely forgotten today, this villain was as brazen as the notorious Jack the Ripper. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt officials, and stifling morality of Victorian society that allowed Dr. Cream to prey on vulnerable and desperate women.
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Hard to Follow
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Black Dahlia Avenger
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For 56 years, the Black Dahlia murder case remained one of the most notorious and high-profile unsolved crimes of the 20th century. Now, Steve Hodel, a 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, believes he has finally solved the case. On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short - "The Black Dahlia" - was found dead in a vacant lot in Los Angeles, her body horribly mutilated, bisected at the waist, and posed in a bizarre manner.
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Compelling Listen!
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In The Art of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nationwide panic in the early 19th century, and the case of Frederick and Maria Manning, the suburban couple who were hanged after killing Maria's lover and burying him under their kitchen floor. Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism.
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The Dark Queens
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Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet - in sixth-century Merovingian France, where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport - these two iron-willed strategists reigned over vast realms, changing the face of Europe.
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Fascinating & Long Overdue
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Ripper
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Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian London. But the ghoulish nature of his art - as well as extensive evidence - points to another name, one that's left its bloody mark on the pages of history: Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has collected never-before-seen archival material - including a rare mortuary photo, personal correspondence and a will with a mysterious autopsy clause - and applied cutting-edge forensic science to open an old crime to new scrutiny.
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I thought this was a new book.
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Death in the Air
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A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut, Death in the Air, is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December fifth of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days.
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Interesting
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Lady Killers
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When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie Klimek, Moulay Hassan, Kate Bender? The narrative we’re comfortable with is the one where women are the victims of violent crime, not the perpetrators. In fact, serial killers are thought to be so universally, overwhelmingly male that in 1998, FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood infamously declared in a homicide conference, “There are no female serial killers.”
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I think the narrator really made this one for me
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The House of Dudley
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Each Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley by their side—or by crushing one beneath their feet. The Dudleys thrived at the court of Henry VII but were sacrificed to the popularity of Henry VIII. Rising to prominence in the reign of Edward VI, the Dudleys lost it all by advancing Jane Grey to the throne over Mary I. That was until the reign of Elizabeth I, when the family was once again at the center of power and would do anything to remain there . . . With three generations of felled favorites, what was it that caused this family to keep rising so high and falling so low?
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- MK
- 08-20-21
Excellent
This is the first time I’ve listened to an entire audio book and it was a great experience. First of all the book was great. Rubenhold brought to life the world of working class to poor women in late 1800s England, and specifically to the victims of Jack the Ripper. In this book we meet them as they were and understand the precarious position of women of their time. Also Louise Brealey’s voice and accent was perfect for this book and very easy to listen to.
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- Ethan Hackett
- 06-18-21
More Than Just Victims
The stories of the women who fell victim to Jack the Ripper are heart wrenching, emotional and important. This book tells their stories as people who deserve to be recognized as more than just the victims of a sensationalized murderer. Fans of 'true crime' stories, myself included, would benefit from remembering that killers end lives that had meaning before their interventions. A sobering and very important look at the worlds of these too often forgotten women.
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- Ana Garcia
- 02-14-21
A must read
This book is beautifully written and marvelous told. I've grown up on the story of Jack the Ripper and never in all my years of reading about the crimes have I ever come across so much information about the lives of these five women or the working poor in Victorian London. The conclusion is especially brutal to see how far we've come as a society and how far we still have to go in how women are thought of.
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- Newlawgirl
- 07-11-22
Interesting book on forgotten historical figures
Like most readers, I only knew about the five women that Jack the Ripper killed through the lens of the murderer himself. This book not only provides a more detailed picture of each of the victims but also of the society in which they lived. I found everything about this book fascinating and the narrator was perfect.
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- Jennifer Freese
- 11-22-22
Worth listening to
What a great background on all those women who unfortunately suffered at the hands of the Ripper. Most of the victims are known as just prostitutes rather than who each of the woman truly was. This book was recommended to me by a Heygo tour guide who does Ripper and tours of each of the 5 victims. I am glad I got to listen.
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- Jack Ruskin
- 12-05-22
An incredibly interesting and informative read
It surpassed my high expectations. Great background and insight. I learned a lot about life in Victorian England, particularly for poor woken.
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- heather kelm
- 02-07-23
The life of these women
I was in rapture with learning about the life of these five women. From birth to death without gory details. I found the story of these women to be very enlightening. I love that they did not focus on the killer.
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- Pamela M Foreman
- 09-04-23
Historically interest
I loved this book because I enjoy reading and learning about history as it can relate to stories. Thumbs up.
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- mamaThea
- 11-27-23
It’s about time we learned about these women
Thorough, empathetic, impressive story telling. These women were far more than the chalk outlines they had become.
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- Alicia
- 12-27-23
Must read for true crime fans
This is one of the best books I’ve ever read/listened to in terms of humanizing the victims and not glorifying a killer. The amount of research in this book is incredible. It offers a unique perspective on these five victims as well as life in the late 1800s. Anyone who says they are a fan of true crime absolutely should read this book.
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