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...And finally Dennis Severs came to Spitalfields in 1979 and bought a derelict house saved by the Spitalfields Trust, in the part of east London where Jack the Ripper prowled....
...Victorian news reporting of the Jack the Ripper murders was sensationalist, and since police have never found the murderer, amateur theories abound....
...worker Emily Dimmock was murdered in 1907, these are so dark and claustrophobic, the figures splayed close-up on dizzyingly angled iron beds, that Sickert was — still occasionally is — suggested as Jack the Ripper...
...One year on, Simon’s charismatic boss assigns him to edit a steamy bodice-ripper entitled The Vixen, The Patriot, and The Fanatic, in which a thinly disguised Ethel — now Esther Rosenstein — is a reckless...
...Reclaim the Night, the first attempt in the UK to raise awareness about gender rights and public spaces, started in 1977, while police failed to apprehend the Yorkshire Ripper....
...Which, as US professor David Weinberger wrote, “allows the masses to wrest control of fame from traditional media”....
...— what a ripper!...
...Ripper investigation as their background....
...In David Mercatali’s precisely pitched production, Gemma Whelan and Sean Michael Verey give virtuoso lead performances....
...It came too soon, and is the result of a deep dive into the numbers being generated in each division by the (relatively) new finance director David Smith....
...David Mercatali directs....
...Holmes burst on to the scene at a time when Jack the Ripper was stalking the streets of Whitechapel and poverty and prostitution were rife....
...And think of David Lean....
...The piece is an action-packed bodice-ripper, full of ribald jokes and lewd plebeians, with even the tragic scenes balanced on the knife-edge of hilarity....
...Devised by food entrepreneurs David Selig and Andrew Field and powered exclusively by solar energy, the stand has clean white walls hand-painted with a harlequin pattern, and the menu is scrawled on chalk...
...Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is just Jack the Ripper transferred to Wall Street....
...“This year marks the 125th anniversary of the Jack the Ripper murders,” says Donald Rumbelow....
...Red or Dead, by David Peace, Faber, RRP£20, 736 pages Here is David Peace, on his publisher’s website, explaining why he wrote his new novel Red or Dead: “I have written about corruption, I’ve written about...
...He organises his sculpture by function – earth-marking, carving, offshore – and the “Ripper Teeth” are the versatile building blocks of much of what he does....
...Scotland Yard is already implicated, as is [David] Cameron’s government,” Mr Spitzer wrote on Slate magazine, adding that the US’ own Department of Justice “can and should fill the void”....
...Once dismissed as “bodice-rippers”, historical novels tended not to be literary prize-winners; that is, until Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall came along in 2009....
...Sir David Tang , entrepreneur and FT House & Home columnist Where are you spending the summer?...
...(The first Whitechapel series was modelled on the savage career of Jack the Ripper.)...
...Burn is much better on the earlier generation of British artists, David Hockney, Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, where his criticism is less complicit....
...“Are you David?” he says, his flat Yorkshire vowels and the stress on the “a” of David, immediately discernible. “Do you know this place?”...
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