Evelyn nesbit biography
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Evelyn Nesbit: The world’s first supermodel
Features correspondent
Evelyn Nesbit achieved great fame more than a century ago as a model. She revolutionised cultural life, writes Lindsay Baker.
What makes a supermodel? A preternatural beauty, of course, but there is more – a certain charisma, an unerring mode instinct, a steely resilience, sex appeal. And a mere model becomes a ‘super’ when she becomes not only stratospherically famous, but also when she somehow encapsulates her era. The supermodel provides a snapshot of a moment in time because she is always at the epicentre of the fashionable cultural life of her time – and at its vanguard. Every decade has their supers, from impish, mini-skirted, swinging-‘60s icons Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy to quirky Cara Delevingne today.
But the phenomenon goes back further than Twiggy, to the very start of the 20th Century, when the world’s first ever supermodel rose to fame. Evelyn Nesbit, a willowy, copper-
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E. Nesbit
English author and poet (–)
For the American model, see Evelyn Nesbit.
Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August – 4 May ) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children and others as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party.
Biography
[edit]Nesbit was born in at 38 Lower Kennington Lane, Kennington, Surrey (now classified as Inner London),[a] the daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Nesbit, who died in March , before her fourth birthday. Her mother was Sarah Green (née Alderton).
The ill health of Edith's sister Mary meant that the family travelled for some years, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angoulême, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Dinan in Brittany), Spain and Ger
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Evelyn Nesbit
American model, chorus girl, and actress (s–)
For the writer, see E. Nesbit.
Evelyn Nesbit | |
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photograph by Gertrude Käsebier | |
| Born | ()December 25, , or ()December 25, Tarentum, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 17, () (aged&#;82) or January 17, () (aged&#;81) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Other&#;names | Evelyn Nesbit Thaw |
| Occupation(s) | Model, chorus girl, actress |
| Years&#;active | |
| Spouses | Jack Clifford &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; |
| Children | Russell William Thaw |
Florence Evelyn Nesbit (December 25, or &#;– January 17, ) was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and actress. She is best known for her career in New York City, as well as her husband, railroad scion Harry Kendall Thaw's obsessive and abusive fixation on both Nesbit and architect Stanford White, which resulted in White's murder by Thaw in
As a model, Nesbit was frequently photographed for mass circulation newspapers, magazine adverti