Much like Marilyn Monroe later in the century, Evelyn Nesbit was an icon of her age, created and consumed by the public's insatiable appetite for private sin and public scandal. She was America's ...

Evelyn Nesbit described the events surrounding her lover Stanford White's 1906 murder in two memoirs: The Story of My Life, published in 1914, and twenty years later, Prodigal Days. Read ...

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In the twilight of the Gilded Age, an ensemble of the era's celebrities including Thomas Edison, Edgar Degas and Evelyn Nesbit meet at the home of an eccentric and failing tycoon and his wife ...