![]() She, her mother and her brother bounced from one temporary home to another before a teenage Nesbit pulled the family out of debt by modeling and then acting. ![]() In Uruburu's telling, Nesbit had a bucolic childhood in Pennsylvania until her father's sudden death, which plunged the family into penury. ![]() The Gilded Age "It" girl, in other words, was far less Salome than Pauline (as in "The Perils of"). Nesbit comes across as a naïve young girl manipulated by both the great architect and his millionaire assailant, both of whom happened to be sexual predators. In "American Eve," Paula Uruburu, making magnificent use of Nesbit's memoirs, letters and photographs (which introduce many of the chapters), places the notorious murder in a new context. She has long been held vicariously responsible for the 1906 murder of the architect Stanford White, who was shot by Nesbit's jealous husband during a performance at what was then Madison Square Garden. New York Times Review INSOFAR as the Gilded Age model Evelyn Nesbit - arguably the most famous face of the early 20th century - is remembered today, it's as a tease and a gold digger. ![]()
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