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for Non-fiction. Rubenhold's focus on the victims of murder (frequently women), rather than on the identity or the acts of the perpetrator, has been credited with changing attitudes to the proper commemoration of such crimes and to the appeal and function of the
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Rubenhold appears regularly as an expert contributor on history documentaries for British and US networks. In the past she has appeared on BBC 2's
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Rubenhold was born in Los Angeles to a British father and American mother and undertook a BA in History at the
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in 2019 and was named the Hay Festival Book of the Year. It was also shortlisted for the 2020
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The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack and the extraordinary story of "Harris' List"
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The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack and the Extraordinary Story of Harris's List
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is set during the Terror in Revolutionary Paris. It follows on from her first novel,
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later adapted the material for a documentary, presented by Rubenhold herself called
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from 3 November 2008 and was adapted into a 90-minute drama for BBC 2 entitled
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Lady Worsley’s Whim; An Eighteenth Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce
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Rubenhold has written two novels, both set during the eighteenth century.
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to classic works of eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature.
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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against Maurice George Bisset for having committed adultery with
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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The Historian vol. 55 no. 4, Blackwell Publishing, 1993, p. 832
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Mistress of My Fate; The Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot
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with burlesque star Immodesty Blaize and on BBC 4's
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Index


The British Library
Alma mater
University of Massachusetts Amherst
BA
University of Leeds
MA
MPhil
Social history
History of the United Kingdom
Victorian era
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Five
Jack the Ripper
Wolfson History Prize
Baillie Gifford Prize
true crime
University of Massachusetts
Amherst
University of Leeds
Philip Mould
National Portrait Gallery
Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies
BBC
merkins
History Cold Case
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
criminal conversation
Sir Richard Worsley
Seymour Fleming

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