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LJRGUserName OP t1_ix613em wrote

Reply to comment by CraftyRole4567 in Completely hooked by the writing style and research into "the Five" by Hallie Rubenhold. "There are two version of the events of 1887. One is very well known, the other is not." The five are the victims of Jack the Ripper and had always been labelled prostitutes, but they were not. by LJRGUserName

Transactional sex is discussed in the book, but it wasn't these women's main profession which the newspapers claimed at that time and still sticks. A woman without a man at that time really had very little and there were no social safety nets. I thought her research very thorough.

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LJRGUserName OP t1_ix5bzqy wrote

Reply to comment by nobody_you_know in Completely hooked by the writing style and research into "the Five" by Hallie Rubenhold. "There are two version of the events of 1887. One is very well known, the other is not." The five are the victims of Jack the Ripper and had always been labelled prostitutes, but they were not. by LJRGUserName

Well said and certainly why I think the book such a great read. Those victims did suffer through their poverty, homelessness, food insecurity, and being dipsomaniacs.

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LJRGUserName OP t1_ix5b8c3 wrote

Reply to comment by cannotfoolowls in Completely hooked by the writing style and research into "the Five" by Hallie Rubenhold. "There are two version of the events of 1887. One is very well known, the other is not." The five are the victims of Jack the Ripper and had always been labelled prostitutes, but they were not. by LJRGUserName

No. 4 of them were sleeping on the street because lodging houses charged money.

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