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Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White: Love and Death in the Gilded Age
Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White Love and Death in the Gilded Age Author:Michael Macdonald Mooney Includes section of black & white photographs. "Evelyn Nesbit (December 25, 1884 - January 17, 1967) was an artists' model and chorus girl, noted for her entanglement in the murder of her ex-lover, architect Stanford White, by her first husband, Harry K. Thaw. — Born Florence Evelyn Nesbit in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, her family was le... more »ft destitute when her father, a lawyer named Winfield Scott Nesbit, died in 1893 leaving substantial debts. For years Evelyn, her mother, and younger brother lived in near-poverty, but by the time she reached adolescence her beauty came to the attention of several local artists, including John Storm, and she was able to find employment as an artists' model. In 1901, when Evelyn was sixteen (and by now the sole support of her family), she and her mother moved to New York City where she posed for painter Frederick Church and photographer Rudolf Eickemeyer. Charles Dana Gibson reportedly used Evelyn as the inspiration for his illustrations of the 'Gibson Girl.'"« less