Jack the Ripper: The Definitive HistoryRoutledge, 2013 M10 3 - 398 páginas 'The clearest, most accurate, and most up-to-date account of the Ripper murders, by one of Britain's greatest and most respected experts on the "autumn of terror" in Victorian London.' William D. Rubenstein, Professor of Modern History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth England in the 1880s was a society in transition, shedding the skin of Victorianism and moving towards a more modern age. Promiscuity, moral decline, prostitution, unemployment, poverty, police inefficiency... all these things combined to create a feeling of uncertainty and fear. The East End of London became the focus of that fear. Here lived the uneducated, poverty-ridden and morally destitute masses. When Jack the Ripper walked onto the streets of the East End he came to represent everything that was wrong with the area and with society as a whole. He was fear in a human form, an unknown lurker in the shadows who could cross boundaries and kill. Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History is not yet another attempt to identify the culprit. Instead, the book sets the murders in their historical context, examining in depth what East London was like in 1888, how it came to be that way, and how events led to one of the most infamous and grisly episodes of the Victorian era.
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chapter two EMMA ELIZABETH SMITH | |
chapter three THE BITTER | |
chapter four MARTHA TABRAM | |
chapter five FLOUNDER AND FUMBLE AND CATCH WHOM YOU CAN | |
chapter six MARY ANN NICHOLS | |
chapter seven THE MAIDEN TRIBUTE | |
chapter eight AT THE CRATER OF A VOLCANO | |
chapter ten THE DOUBLE EVENT ELIZABETH STRIDE | |
chapter eleven CATHARINE EDDOWES | |
chapter twelve DEAR BOSS | |
chapter thirteen MARY JANE KELLY | |
chapter fourteen THE GREAT VICTORIAN MYSTERY WHO WAS JACK THE RIPPER? | |
chapter fifteen OTHER RIPPER SUSPECTS | |
chapter nine ANNIE CHAPMAN | |