Hallie Rubenhold
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Explores the lives of the five women Jack the Ripper murdered--Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Mary Jane, and Catherine--fighting back against the untruth perpetuated by newspapers that "the Ripper" only preyed on prostitutes. Explores the historical context of each of the women's lives and what it was like to be a woman in the Victorian Age in England.
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On February 1, 1910, the vivacious, diamond-adorned music hall performer Belle Elmore suddenly vanished from her home, causing alarm among her friends, the entertainers of the Music Hall Ladies' Guild. Their demands for an investigation would lead to the unearthing of a gruesome secret and trigger a fevered international manhunt for Belle's husband, medical fraudster Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen. Ethel Le Neve, Crippen's typist and lover, who fled with...
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Ein gescheiterter Dichter, ein gefallenes Mädchen und ein Notizbuch voller schlüpfriger Details. Spannend wie ein Roman steigt dieses Debüt in die Londoner Halbwelt des 18. Jahrhunderts hinab. Mit "Covent Garden Ladies" hat Hallie Rubenhold ein wichtiges Stück Sozialgeschichte und ein schillerndes Porträt der georgianischen Gesellschaft geschrieben.AUTORENPORTRÄTHallie Rubenhold, wurde 1971 als Kind britischer Eltern in Los Angeles geboren....
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In February 1782, England opened its newspapers to read the details of Sir Richard and Lady Worsleys' scandalous sexual arrangements, voyeuristic tendencies, and bed-hopping antics. This lively true history presents a rarely seen picture of aristocratic life in the Georgian era.