Brighton District Library issued the following announcement.
Virtual Brunch Bunch Book Discussion - The Five
11/10/202
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Spots Available:
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Brighton District Library
Virtual Meeting
Registration is open
Virtual Meeting through Zoom
Give our Virtual Brunch Bunch a try!
The group is led by library staff, and welcomes everyone.
The meeting will take place via Zoom. A day before the meeting, you will be emailed a link and password to join the discussion. If you registered and didn't receive a link, check your spam folder. Some of our group emails end up there!
The Library is open! You can request a copy of the book through our shared system or contact us at 810-229-6571 x227 and we can place one on hold for you. This title is also available through Hoopla as an eBook and eAudiobook.
For more information, contact Jennifer Osborne at josborne@brightonlibrary.info
November's title is The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London-the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper
Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffeehouses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers.
What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women.
For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that "the Ripper" preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, but it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty, homelessness, and rampant misogyny. They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time-but their greatest misfortune was to be born women.
Hoopla: The Five
Library Catalog: The Five
Generously sponsored by the Friends of the Brighton District Library
Event Type(s): Adult Events
Age Group(s): Adults
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