British social historian Hallie Rubenhold says she’s “disgusted” the 19th century killer continues to be seen as an “antihero” in England, more than 130 years after he brutally murdered at least five women in London’s East End.
“The moment you realise this is a real person who did this to real people, it stops being funny,” Rubenhold told reporters on Tuesday. At the time of the murders, a government worker actually praised him for helping rid London of “outcasts”. , in which she retraces the lives of Nichols, Chapman, Stride, Eddowes and Kelly until the days of their deaths.
Her book, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2019, explains none of the women originally came from Whitechapel and almost all had been married or married with children. Chapman had lived on a country estate in Windsor and was middle class, while Eddowes was the daughter of a notorious union agitator in Wolverhampton.“The victims of Jack the Ripper were never just prostitutes – they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, lovers,” she writes in the book.
The bushranger Ned Kelly is hailed here in Oz...and he was a thief and a cop killer.
Who celebrates this vile thing?
Want to make money off the back of a historical murderer? Step 1. Write a book about the 5 victims of “Jack the Ripper”; a historical, vicious murderer in London’s East End. Step 2. Complain about people making money off “Jack the Ripper” in the hope to sell more books.
How do we celebrate him?.... Knife Crime? Dodgy Surgeons? People police cannot catch? but wait... ...we celebrate Guy Fawkes... a terrorist who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
Seems to imply it would have been OK to murder them if they were all prostitutes which is pretty nasty.
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