The untold story of the women killed by Jack the Ripper and a gripping portrait of Victorian London. The book draws on a wealth of formerly unseen archival material to add full historical context to the victims 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 women. For more than a century newspapers have been keen to tell us that the Ripper prayed on prostitutes this untrue as historian hally Rubenhold has discovered.