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Evelyn Nesbit Timeline and Summary

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Evelyn Nesbit Timeline and Summary

  • Evelyn, whose former lover Stanford White has just been murdered by her husband, Harry K. Thaw, prepares her testimony for trial.
  • One day Evelyn goes into the Lower East Side and meets Tateh and Little Girl, who she becomes obsessed with. Tateh takes her to a rally where Emma Goldman speaks and makes Tateh realize who Evelyn is.
  • After a fight breaks out, Emma rescues Evelyn and gives her a massage. Hiding in the room is Younger Brother, who gives into his sexual desires in the closet during the massage and then reveals himself.
  • Evelyn begins an affair with Younger Brother, which ends when she becomes bored with him.
  • She searches for Tateh and Little Girl but never finds them, and spends what little money she has on socialist causes.