Hallie Rubenhold (born 1971) is an American-born British historian and author. 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. 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.
Books in order of publication:
The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack and the extraordinary story of “Harris’ List”. Stroud: Tempus – 2005
Lady Worsley’s Whim; An Eighteenth Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce. Chatto & Windus. US title: The Lady in Red – 2008
Mistress of My Fate; The Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot Transworld – 2011
The French Lesson Transworld – 2015
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper – 2019
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Doctor Crippen – 2025
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