Hallie Rubenhold | |
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 Rubenhold at The British Library in 2022 | |
| Born | 1971 (age 52–53) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | British |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Massachusetts Amherst (BA) University of Leeds (MA, MPhil) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Notable works | The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (2019) |
Hallie Rubenhold (born 1971) is an American-born British historian and author.[1][2] Her work specializes in 18th and 19th century social history and women's history. Her 2019 book The Five, about the lives of the women murdered by Jack the Ripper, was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction.[3] 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 true crime genre.[4]
- ^ The Historian vol. 55 no. 4, Blackwell Publishing, 1993, p. 832
- ^ "OCLC Classify -- an Experimental Classification Service". classify.oclc.org. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
- ^ "Hallie Rubenhold wins the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction | the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction". Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ Smith, Wendy. "Review | Jack the Ripper's identity has been endlessly scrutinized. His victims were largely forgotten". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 12 November 2020.