EN266 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Evelyn Nesbit, General Tom Thumb, Stanford White
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Patriotism was a reliable sentiment in the early 1900"s 3. Trains and steamers and trolleys moved them from one place to another. That was the style, the way people lived. There was a lot of sexual fainting. Across america sex and death were barely distinguishable. One read between the lines of the journals and the gazettes. The shooting of the famous architect stanford white by. Harry k. thaw the husband of evelyn nesbit, the celebrated beauty that had once been stanford"s mistress. She had been a well-known artist"s model at the age of fifteen her husband habitually whipped her. Although the newspapers called it the crime of the century, Goldman know it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go. Mother"s younger brother was in love with evelyn nesbit he was desperate to have her. It showed evelyn in profile, with a profusion of hair, one thick strand undone and falling in the configuration of a question mark.
