LONDON — I’d been living here for a little more than a year when I finally went on a Jack the Ripper walking tour. I didn’t really start to feel uneasy until we paused outside a pub called the Ten Bells, a place two of Jack the Ripper’s victims supposedly frequented. I remember him batting his eyelashes as he said it, delivering the name in a coquettish falsetto. There have long been efforts to try to change the way we talk about Jack the Ripper and how we treat his victims. Over the years, there have been various efforts at staging “alternative” Ripper tours, focused on the lives of the women he killed and not on the moments of their deaths.

Source: New York Times April 20, 2019 18:22 UTC