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"A great moral act" was how the judges for the Baillie Gifford prize, the UK's most prestigious literary award for nonfiction, characterized social historian Rubenhold's (The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce) depiction of the lives of Jack the Ripper's victims. While the details of the Ripper's 1888 murderous rampage are well known, and often gruesomely glorified, few people can name even one of his five victims. Now, thanks to Rubenhold's meticulously researched, humane portraits of the full lives of Polly Nichols, Anne Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Katherin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More