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Referenced as a prize-winning 2019 book providing group biography of Jack the Ripper's murdered victims, described as revelatory for showing the women as human beings rather than just prostitutes

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Described as 'one of the first big studies of the murders' written by an Australian journalist in 1929, referenced when discussing the long history of Jack the Ripper scholarship

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Referenced multiple times as 'his great study of London in the 19th century' and 'his book on late 19th century London' for information about crime, prostitution, and social conditions in Victorian London

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Quoted to explain Victorian-era categorization of women as prostitutes, specifically that any woman kept by a man without marriage was categorized as a prostitute

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Referenced when discussing the workhouse system, noting that 'anyone who's read Oliver Twist will know' about Victorian welfare in the form of workhouses