Jack the Ripper – Spreading Terror in Queen Victorias London
Jack was certainly not the ‘original’ serial killer; however, he was perhaps the first to emerge in a great capital like London in an era where the ‘common people’ had become largely literate and the press was could be used as a power for societal transformations. The Ripper also came onto the scene when at a time of political upheaval, and social reformers as well as liberals attempted to exploit the crimes for their own political purposes.
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