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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, it has prevented the real stories of these women from being told. Now, in this narrative of five lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world of poverty, homelessness and misogyny