Evelyn Nesbit described the events surrounding her ... Try as she would, my mother did not succeed in securing even a minor position with a firm of dress designers. Everywhere the same answer ...

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Her mother gave up any notion of securing a job ... 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 ...