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Tragic Beauty: The Lost 1914 Memoirs of Evelyn Nesbit
The 1914 memoirs of Evelyn Nesbit, the beautiful chorus girl and model whose association with architect Stanford White would later lead to his sensational murder at Madison Square Garden. In June 1906, Pittsburgh playboy Harry K. Thaw shot and murdered Stanford White, one of America's most famous architects, over a deadly dispute involving White's seduction of Thaw's wife,...more
Paperback, 184 pages
Published
April 30th 2006
by Lulu Press
(first published 1914)
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A noble vanity press effort to reconstruct the 1914 manuscript of Evelyn Nesbit's first autobiography. Book reveals an admirably perceptive and shrewd woman who seems quite ahead of her time. However, I was disappointed by the lack of detail; Ms. Nesbit seems to focus more on offering biographical facts and impressions than on painting a vivid picture of life at the turn of the century (I would have loved to have heard more details about life in the theater in 1901, or the experience of dining o...more
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