books: evelyn nesbit

books: evelyn nesbit

books:

Evelyn nesbit

Dementia Americana
Keith Maillard

Ronsdale Press, 1994

Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White: Love and Death in the Gilded Age

Michael Macdonald Mooney

Morrow, 1976

Getting the feel of the Gilded Age
I tracked down this book and read it, because after seeing Ragtime (musical) I realized I didn't know about Evelyn Nesbit and the "murder of the century." I'm so glad my curiosity led me to this particular book. It tells the story of the three main characters in the ...

Tragic Beauty: The Lost 1914 Memoirs of Evelyn Nesbit

Deborah Paul

Lulu.com, 2006

Evelyn Nesbit, classic beauty, sad story.
Evelyn was New York's first "It" girl back at the beginning of the 20th century. Her wacko husband, Harry K. Thaw of Pittsburgh murdered famed architect Stanford White in 1906. Tragic Beauty is her autobiography of the events that led up to and following the murder. ...

The Railway Children

Evelyn Nesbit

Crescent, 1991

Read It!!!
This is not simply a children's book. It is an extremely touching story of three children whose father is suddenly taken away from them and how they cope with the changed circumstances, how they adjust to "play at being poor" as their mother says. It is a book that is ...

Before Armageddon (An Anthology of Victorian and Edwardian Fiction Published Before 1914, Volume 1)
G. T. Chesney, Jules Verne, ...

Wyndham Publications, 1976

Collection of early science fiction stories with introductory essay from Michael Moorcock.

Sob Sister Journalism: (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications)
Phyllis Abramson

Greenwood Press, 1990

On June 25, 1906 an event of little public importance occurred. Fueled by popular mood and climate, and capitalized upon by the press, it became the "hottest story" of the century. Phyllis Leslie Abramson's book recreates the social, political, and economic climate; the murder; and the subsequent trial that led to the manifestation of sob sister ...

American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White: The Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century

Paula Uruburu

Riverhead Hardcover, 2008

I'm hard to please and I loved this book
This is a good yarn. It's told well, and keeps you going, wanting to know what happens next. It's hard for me to find books that keep me engaged. This book is riveting. I highly recommend it.

The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family

Suzannah Lessard

The Dial Press, 1996

A book worth every penny and every minute!
I initially read this book on a library loan as a small part of research for a project I was doing. Now I'm back at Amazon to purchase it. It's one I want to read again in leisure time, to savor, not only for the wealth of history it provides, and the painfully ...

Prodigal Days: The Untold Story of Evelyn Nesbit
Evelyn Nesbit

Lulu.com, 2005

The memoirs of Evelyn Nesbit, the showgirl caught in the middle of the 1906 murder trial of Stanford White and labeled "The Murder of the Century." Evelyn's husband, Harry K. Thaw murdered New York's then most famous architect, Stanford White on the the roof top of Madison Square Garden on a hot June night in 1906. The "seduction" of 16-year-old ...