" The courses their lives took mirrored that of so many other women of the Victorian age, and yet were so singular in the way they ended. It is for them that I write this book. I do so in the hope that we may now hear their stories clearly and give back to them that which was so brutally taken away with their lives: their dignity. "

― Hallie Rubenhold , The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper