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The Ripper murders mark an important watershed in the treatment of crime by journalists. [24] [203] Jack the Ripper was not the first serial killer, but his case was the first to create a worldwide media frenzy. [24] [203] The Elementary Education Act 1880 (which had extended upon a previous Act) made school attendance compulsory regardless of ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 March 2025. Polish barber and Jack the Ripper suspect Aaron Kosminski Born Aron Mordke Kozmiński (1865-09-11) 11 September 1865 Kłodawa, Congress Poland, Russian Empire Died 24 March 1919 (1919-03-24) (aged 53) Leavesden Hospital, Hertfordshire, England Nationality Polish Occupation Hairdresser Known ...
Jack the Ripper and black magic: Victorian conspiracy theories, secret societies and the supernatural mystique of the Whitechapel murders. Jefferson, N.C London: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4547-9. Eddleston, John J. (15 November 2012). Jack The Ripper - An Encyclopedia. Metro Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84358-046-1. OCLC 52940092.
Two British musicals, Ripper by Terence Greer and The Jack the Ripper Show and How They Wrote It by Frank Hatherley, were staged in 1973. [27] Jack the Ripper: The Musical (1974), with lyrics and music by Ron Pember, who co-authored the book with Dennis de Marne, [28] influenced Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ...
The Complete Jack The Ripper A–Z – The Ultimate Guide to The Ripper Mystery. Marylebone: John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-844-54797-5. Douglas, John; Olshaker, Mark (2002). The Cases That Haunt Us. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-01830-6. Evans, Stewart; Skinner, Keith (2001). Jack the Ripper: Letters From Hell.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (paperback edition: The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began [1]) is a 2011 book by Stephen Greenblatt and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
[10] Her book strays from the common gory re-tellings of Jack the Ripper's femicides and instead adopts "a compassionate but unsentimental style" when describing the lives of the victims, wrote Jad Adams for Literary Review: "This is because she wants to look not at how they died but at how they lived." [11]
Maybrick's health deteriorated suddenly on 27 April 1889, and he died fifteen days later at his home in Aigburth.The circumstances of his death were deemed suspicious by his brothers and an inquest, held in a local hotel, came to the verdict that arsenic poisoning was the most likely cause, administered by persons unknown.