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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction べいりー・ぎふぉーど・ぷらいず

Edition 21 (2019)

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A work of nonfiction that reconstructs the lives of the five women long remembered only as Jack the Ripper's victims. It foregrounds their own lives and social backgrounds rather than the killer's legend.

A famous murder case retold from the perspective of the women who were overlooked.

352 pages
nonfictionhistorybiographyLondonwomen's historycrime history