For more than a century, newspapers unanimously stated that Jack the Ripper preyed on prostitutes. Historian Hallie Rubenhold discovered that this was untrue and decided to tell the real stories of the women who died at his hands. Her relentless storytelling exposes the reader to a world not only of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but also of poverty, homelessness and rampant misogyny. At the heart of this book are five astonishing human stories and a dark, haunting portrait of Victorian London. Published in Russian for the first time.