Top 120 Hallie Rubenhold Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “At some point after this date, Elisabeth’s syphilis entered its latent phase. Although her symptoms would disappear and she would no longer be contagious, eventually, many years later, the disease would return for its destructive, and terminal, tertiary stage.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

102. “Polly Nichols’s last movements are largely known through the testimony that Ellen Holland offered at the coroner’s inquest into her friend’s death.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

103. “From all accounts, the coachman’s wife did not make for an ugly drunk, but rather a sad, sullen, quiet one, weighed down by heartache.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

104. “While life in London held many benefits for a private coachman, John’s work could come and go like the tide.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

105. “Far from being a sanctuary to which sufferers could retreat for a cure, Gothenburg’s venereal disease hospital had a reputation for treating patients as prisoners.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

106. “Finally, to gain admission, each household member needed to provide proof of inoculation against smallpox.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

107. “Mr. Ashville” called himself “a painter and glazier by trade.” Out of work for twelve months, he had spent thirty-three nights sleeping on the Embankment until the weather grew too cold.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

108. “Although they were aware that many poorer women like Kate cohabited with monogamous common-law partners, no real distinction was made between this type of “fallen woman” and acknowledged prostitutes.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

109. “Ellen Holland saw, in the woman who slept beside her, something deeply melancholic; a personality folding in on itself, private, alienated, and grieving.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

110. “Late-nineteenth-century science had already begun to uncover the links between maternal alcohol consumption and its danger to children.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

111. “In early June, the London Fever Hospital proclaimed a crisis when ‘upwards of 100 patients’ were admitted for scarlet fever alone. What then exacerbated the situation was the arrival of a second epidemic: typhus.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

112. “If the lodging-house population was comprised of 8,530 people and a third, or 2,844, of those residents were female, and if it were to be accepted that 1,200 of these women could be identified as prostitutes, that would still indicate that the majority of them, or 1,644, were not engaged in any form of prostitution at all.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

113. “Less than an hour later, when George had still not appeared, the landlady went upstairs and, much to her horror, discovered Leyland’s valet “with his throat cut, in a shocking manner, with a razor lying by him covered with blood.” George was dead by the time he was found, on the floor, “with only his shirt and drawers on.”11.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

114. “Irregular unions,” the term for couples who lived together without benefit of marriage or who carried on extramarital relationships, went against the strict regulations of the Peabody Buildings.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

115. “At times the coroner’s inquest became a moral investigation of Polly Nichols herself, as if the hearing was held in part to determine whether her behavior warranted her fate.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

116. “For five months after Annie’s birth, Ruth’s position remained a precarious one, especially as she soon found herself pregnant with a second child.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

117. “Given the series of tragedies to have befallen the Smiths, it is likely that Annie and John remained in London on account of her reluctance to part with her mother and siblings.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

118. “The demanding schedule, seven days a week, kept children away from their families but for dinner and bed; it also limited a child’s exposure to any vices that the home might harbor.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

119. “Furthermore, on the nights they were killed, no one came forward to state that they had been solicited by Polly, Annie, Kate, or Elisabeth.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

120. “Roughly twelve months lay between the Queen’s Golden Jubilee summer and Polly Nichols’s murder on August 31, 1888.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

121. “Over the course of his career as a factory owner, he would use foreign workers, death threats, spies, and imprisonment to break strikes.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

122. “Not only were most of them born into working-class families; they were also born female.”

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123. “His engaging patter would have enchanted strangers in every pub and marketplace. He was footloose and went where the wind blew him.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

124. “At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer’s deep, abiding hatred of women, and our cultural obsession with the mythology only serves to normalize its particular brand of misogyny.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

125. “In the span of only three weeks, death had carried away four of the Smiths’ six children. The enormity of such a tragedy is almost inconceivable to modern, Western sensibilities, particularly as their lives might have been spared had they lived in an era of antibiotics.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

126. “John’s devotion to his wife, in spite of her affliction, demonstrates nothing short of genuine love.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

127. “Had it been safe to return to the West End, she might have continued to do business in her former manner.”

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128. “While William and Rosetta pursued their relationship, they were gambling with the reputation and the secure living circumstances of both the Nicholses and the Vidlers.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

129. “At each juncture, she made it perfectly plain that Polly was not what the officials insinuated.”

— Hallie Rubenhold

130. “Shortly after Ruth and George’s marriage in 1842, a brother, George William Thomas, joined Annie and her parents. He was followed by Emily Latitia in 1844, Eli in 1849, Miriam in 1851, and William in 1854, bringing the number of children to six.”

— Hallie Rubenhold