Regent Place Book Club
Tuesday, Aug 25 · 7–8 PM
Regina Public Library — Regent Place
331 Albert St
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This is an in-person program. No registration is required. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold. "The untold story of the women killed by Jack the Ripper--and a gripping portrait of Victorian London--[this book] changes the narrative of these murders forever. Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England, and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads, ran coffeehouses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, bu