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They live the fast life in Connecticut before departing to live in France. Their names summon flappers, reckless spending, gleaming hotel lobbies, smoky speakeasies, ocean journeys, white suits, … As Alabama Public Radio notes, biographer Sally Cline claims that Zelda was sexually assaulted by two members of Alabama's high society when she was just 15 years old. "[28] Their social life was fueled with alcohol. [107] Zelda's biographer Cline wrote that the two camps are "as diametrically opposed as the Plath and Hughes literary camps"—a reference to the heated controversy about the relationship of husband–wife poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. The names Scott and Zelda can summon taxis at dusk, conjure gleaming hotel lobbies and smoky speakeasies, flappers, yellow phaetons, white suits, large tips, expatriates, and nostalgia for the Lost Generation. [26], Scott and Zelda quickly became celebrities of New York, as much for their wild behavior as for the success of This Side of Paradise. It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. Scott would later describe their behavior as "sexual recklessness. The collection, which is available to researchers and the public, includes 14 cubic feet of materials. In 1936, Zelda entered the Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, and she was in and out of this facility until her death. After spending much of the 1950s and '60s in family attics—Zelda's mother even had much of the art burned because she disliked it[109]—her work has drawn the interest of scholars. Scott saw the novel's publication as the way to Zelda's heart. Tender is the Night is a fictionalized account of his marriage to Zelda, their promising beginning, and slow slide into failure. "[86], After reading The Last Tycoon, Zelda began working on a new novel of her own, Caesar's Things. In March of 1948, her doctors told her they considered her stable enough to go home again. "[48], After the fight, the Fitzgeralds kept up appearances with their friends, seeming happy. Scott was viewed as a fascinating failure; Zelda's mental health was largely blamed for his lost potential. On December 20, he went out to the movies and collapsed, experiencing chest pains. As The Washington Post notes, Scott isolated himself that summer in France in order to follow a disciplined schedule writing his third novel, The Great Gatsby. It's fitting that it's also the last novel he completed. Literary critic Edmund Wilson, recalling a party at the Fitzgerald home in Edgemoor, Delaware, in February 1928, described Zelda as follows: I sat next to Zelda, who was at her iridescent best. But Zelda was a talented writer and managed to publish one novel in her short, tragic life — 1932's Save Me the Waltz. However, interest in the Fitzgeralds surged in the years following their deaths. Zelda Fitzgerald, American writer and artist, best known for personifying the carefree ideals of the 1920s flapper and for her tumultuous marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald. When they first married, they were deeply in love and widely adored — but it didn't take long for the first cracks to show. [25] According to Canterbery and Birch (and Fitzgerald himself), this first novel was Fitzgerald's "ace in the hole", a poker term. [78], Zelda remained in the hospital while Scott returned to Hollywood for a $1,000-a-week job with MGM in June 1937. In Cline's book, it's made clear that Zelda did in fact have her first sexual experience when she was that age — Scott wrote in a letter to Zelda's sister, "Your mother took such rotten care of Zelda that John Sellers was able to seduce her at fifteen." [54] It was through Hemingway, however, that the Fitzgeralds were introduced to much of the Lost Generation expatriate community: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Robert McAlmon, and others. She was released in September 1931, and the Fitzgeralds returned to Montgomery, Alabama, where her father, Judge Sayre, was dying. Many of her words found their way into Scott's novels: in The Great Gatsby, the character Daisy Buchanan expresses a similar hope for her daughter. She danced, took ballet lessons and enjoyed the outdoors. "[17], Their courtship was briefly interrupted in October when he was summoned north. In fact, you might not be aware of just how talented Zelda was because most of her best work appeared under her husband's name. The night nurse supervisor at Highland gave herself up to police claiming she'd set the fire, but no charges were ever brought. Save Me the Waltz became the focus of many literary studies that explored different aspects of her work: how the novel contrasted with Scott's take on the marriage in Tender Is the Night;[104] how the commodity culture that emerged in the 1920s placed stress on modern women;[102] and how these attitudes led to a misrepresentation of "mental illness" in women. Like the country around them, their Roaring Twenties curdled into a Great Depression, and the Fitzgeralds's love affair ended in alcoholism, mental illness, and untimely death. [87] She was identified by her dental records and, according to other reports, one of her slippers.[88]. [85], Zelda read the unfinished manuscript of the novel Scott was writing upon his death, The Last Tycoon. She was bright, but uninterested in her lessons. Dissatisfied with her marriage, Alabama throws herself into ballet. The Fitzgerald Museum is the only dedicated museum to the lives and legacies of F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald in the world. He left the Riviera later that year, and the Fitzgeralds never saw him again. "[35], In early 1922, Zelda again became pregnant. At age 27, she became obsessed with ballet, which she had studied as a girl. Two decades after achieving bestseller status and literary fame, Scott was a has-been. I hope it's beautiful and a fool—a beautiful little fool." As Literary Hub makes clear, this wasn't even a secret at the time — Scott openly discussed her influence and inspiration, and Zelda even made a joke of it in her review of his second novel, saying, "In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald — I believe that is how he spells his name — seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.". But Scott was totally dismissive of his wife's desire to become a professional dancer, considering it a waste of time. Jozan. [55] She later threw herself down a flight of marble stairs at a party because Scott, engrossed in talking to Isadora Duncan, was ignoring her.[56]. In the ledger that he meticulously maintained throughout his life, Scott noted in 1918, on September 7, that he had fallen in love. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were darlings of the Jazz Age. [49] It was also on this trip, while ill with colitis, that Zelda began painting. The book was a semi-autobiographical account of the Fitzgeralds' marriage. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart. As The Vintage News reports, The New York Times wrote, "It is not only that her publishers have not seen fit to curb an almost ludicrous lushness of writing but they have not given the book the elementary services of a literate proofreader.". [13], F. Scott Fitzgerald was known to appreciate and take from Zelda's letters, even plagiarising her diary while he was writing This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby. "[81], After a drunken and violent fight with Graham in 1938, Scott returned to Asheville. Later in life he told Zelda's biographer Milford that any infidelity was imaginary: "They both had a need of drama, they made it up and perhaps they were the victims of their own unsettled and a little unhealthy imagination. [72], Thematically, the novel portrays Alabama's struggle (and hence Zelda's as well) to rise above being "a back-seat driver about life" and to earn respect for her own accomplishments—to establish herself independently of her husband. [70], Scott forced Zelda to revise the novel, removing the parts that drew on shared material he wished to use. [57], Though Scott drew heavily upon his wife's intense personality in his writings, much of the conflict between them stemmed from the boredom and isolation Zelda experienced when Scott was writing. Negative opinion culminated with the 1964 publication of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, in which he portrays a fictionalized Zelda as a harridan who derailed her husband’s career. He had been cheated of his dream by Zelda. But Zelda was a talented woman who aspired to express herself in many different ways. The Fitzgeralds lived here from 1931 until 1932, writing portions of their respective novels, Save Me The Waltz and Tender Is The Night during their time in Montgomery. Zelda first met the future novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald in July 1918, when he had volunteered for the army, and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, outside Montgomery. He wrote, "all criticism of Rosalind ends in her beauty," and told Zelda that "… Despairing, he took a large dose of morphine in an effort to end his own life. "[11] Zelda was more than a mere muse, however—after she showed Scott her personal diary, he used verbatim excerpts from it in his novel. He took too much too quickly, however, and vomited up most of the dose, saving his life. He was helped home and went to bed. It needs no other justification than its comparative excellence. Zelda (shared byline with Scott for financial purposes), Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number—, 1934 The Great Gatsby is published, greeted by tepid reviews and disappointing sales. As a result, Zelda's literary reputation was always unfairly obscured by her more famous husband. Zelda: A Biography, the first book-length treatment of Zelda's life, became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and figured for weeks on The New York Times best-seller list. Mark Twain. The Great Gatsby was in draft form during the July 1924 Jozan crisis; the typescript was sent to Scribners at the end of October. True, Zelda was an inspiration for heroines and dialogue in his stories, and half of the golden couple of what Scott dubbed "The Jazz Age," but she was also an accomplished writer, and artist. A group from Zelda's hospital had planned to go to Cuba, but Zelda had missed the trip. He was in the army, and she was the wild child of a local judge. [12] Gloria Patch, in The Beautiful and Damned, is also known to be a permutation of the "subjects of statement" that appear in Zelda's letters. Their attraction was instant. Scott Fitzgerald, a chronic alcoholic, died when he had a third heart attack in 1940 at age 44, in Graham’s home. [92] When Tennessee Williams dramatized the Fitzgeralds' lives in the 1980s in Clothes for a Summer Hotel, he drew heavily on Milford's account. "[5] She developed an appetite for attention, actively seeking to flout convention—whether by dancing or by wearing a tight, flesh-colored bathing suit to fuel rumors that she swam nude. The fire escapes were wooden, and they caught fire as well. He writes of lost illusions in The Great Gatsby as his lost certainty in Zelda's fidelity. In 1950, screenwriter Budd Schulberg, who knew the couple from his Hollywood years, wrote The Disenchanted, with characters based recognizably on the Fitzgeralds who end up as forgotten former celebrities, he awash with alcohol and she befuddled by mental illness. The Great Gatsby is often viewed as the epitome of the 1920s in this country — new money hosting huge parties soaked in champagne, jazz, and high fashion. [30], On Valentine's Day in 1921, while Scott was working to finish his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, Zelda discovered she was pregnant. In September, Zelda overdosed on sleeping pills. [4] He talked of his plans to be famous, and sent her a chapter of a book he was writing. Among the Archives and Special Collections Library’s manuscript holdings are the papers of Scottie Fitzgerald Smith, Vassar Class of 1942, daughter of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Here's how he stole her writing and took credit for it. She gave him a great deal of the material that he used for novels and short stories throughout their relationship, and she painted the cover of This Side of Paradise. She was identified by the iconic red slippers she always wore. The parallels are striking — a Southern Belle marries a brilliant artist, they become celebrities, her dreams of a ballet career are ruined, everything turns sour. [13], After the success of Milford's biography, scholars and critics began to look at Zelda's work in a new light. Zelda fell hard for Jozan and told Scott she wanted a divorce. Scott was almost immediately forced to write short fiction in order to bring in extra income, which he felt distracted him from his more important work, but their ever-present debts kept him on a treadmill of working to pay off loans, then borrowing more. [45] She spent afternoons swimming at the beach and evenings dancing at the casinos with Jozan. Lit. The museum is in a house they briefly rented in 1931 and 1932. She always loved dance, and at the relatively advanced age of 27, she decided to pursue ballet seriously. [51][53] Her dislike was probably not helped by Scott's repeated insistence that she recount the story of her affair with Jozan to Hemingway and his wife, Hadley. The novel's success allowed him to marry Zelda and made him a celebrity at the age of 23. As Literary Hub reports, Fitzgerald himself was depressed about the quality of his work in the years that followed Gatsby, and in 1936 the literary world's opinion of him was made harshly clear when The New York Post published a scathing article detailing how little Fitzgerald had accomplished in the previous decade. The book is set at the height of the roaring twenties and the couple's drunken antics, close friends (Hemmingway and co.), and eccentric love for each other is examined. In order to pay the bills he wrote short stories for fast money and went to work in Hollywood writing B-movie scripts. A century later, the Roaring Twenties still retains its hold on the American imagination. [82] The Fitzgeralds never saw each other again. [98] Of Zelda's legacy in popular culture, biographer Cline wrote, "Recently myth has likened Zelda to those other twentieth-century icons, Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana. Her works such as. They were ordered to leave both the Biltmore Hotel and the Commodore Hotel for their drunkenness. "[22] In November, he returned to Montgomery, triumphant with the news of his novel. Scott at first demanded to confront Jozan, but instead dealt with Zelda's demand by locking her in their house, until she abandoned her request for divorce. In its time, the book was not well received by critics. Zelda Fitzgerald had a huge influence on F. Scott’s writing. After being diagnosed with schizophrenia, she was increasingly confined to specialist clinics, and the couple were living apart when Scott died suddenly in 1940. The Fitzgeralds mirror their moment in history almost perfectly. is based closely on her own experiences, leading it to be referred to as "Asylum Autobiography." Sadly, Zelda spent the last 15 years of her life in and out of hospitals. [19], They wrote frequently, and by March 1920, Scott had sent Zelda his mother's ring, and the two had become engaged. There was allegedly discussion between the men of publishing it under the name of "The Diary of a Popular Girl". That photo was taken in 1970 by Fitzgerald scholar Richard Anderson and was first published as part of a 2016 essay by fellow-scholar Bryant Mangum, "An Affair of Youth: in search of flappers, belles, and the first grave of the Fitzgeralds. [73] Zelda's writing style was quite different from Scott's. [6] Her father's reputation was something of a safety net, preventing her social ruin,[7] but Southern women of the time were expected to be delicate, docile and accommodating. Also that year, Scott's Hollywood mistress Sheilah Graham published a memoir, Beloved Infidel, about his last years. Some of Scott's friends were irritated; others were enchanted, by her. No actual description of the paintings was provided in the review. In, Bryer, Jackson R. "The critical reputation of F. Scott Fitzgerald." Scott and Zelda’s started in Montgomery, Alabama when a freshly minted second lieutenant in the US Army locked eyes with the town’s notoriously beautiful and rebellious bachelorette at a dance. By the time of Zelda's birth, the Sayres were a prominent Southern family. As Literary Hub notes, in the 1920s it wasn't usual for a married woman to seek her own artistic identity, so Zelda found her efforts to pursue that side of her personality subtly resisted. "[99] In 1989, the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald museum opened in Montgomery, Alabama. Zelda Fitzgerald was ultimately a tragic figure — a beautiful, brilliant woman whose artistic ambitions were suffocated by her husband and a devastating battle with mental illness. Scott was hospitalized for alcohol-related problems eight times between 1933 and 1937, and a lifetime of excessive drinking and smoking ruined his heart, leading to his early death. Parker said, "They did both look as though they had just stepped out of the sun; their youth was striking. A review of the exhibition by curator Everl Adair noted the influence of Vincent van Gogh and Georgia O'Keeffe on her paintings and concluded that her surviving corpus of art "represents the work of a talented, visionary woman who rose above tremendous odds to create a fascinating body of work—one that inspires us to celebrate the life that might have been. Jozan did not know she'd asked for a divorce. There is no evidence that either was homosexual, but Scott nonetheless decided to have sex with a prostitute to prove his heterosexuality. [71], The parallels to the Fitzgeralds were obvious. But for every peak, there were deep valleys of depression, and as Zelda traded manic periods of productivity with dark periods of hospitalization, many believe they see the unmistakable pattern of bipolar disorder. He was so taken with Zelda that he redrafted the character of Rosalind Connage in This Side of Paradise to resemble her. Ernest Hemingway, whom Zelda disliked, blamed her for Scott's declining literary output, though her extensive diaries provided much material for his fiction, sometimes to the point of plagiarism. Worse, it affected his writing — and Scott knew it, often lamenting that drinking got in the way of good writing. Although some writers have said that Scott's diaries include an entry referring to "Zelda and her abortionist", there is, in fact, no such entry. By February 1932, she had returned to living in a psychiatric clinic. The Golden 1920s couple didn't fare as well in the 1930s, and the North Carolina mountain town was host to a particularly sad time. In a 1968 edition of Save Me the Waltz, F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar Matthew Bruccoli wrote, "Save Me the Waltz is worth reading partly because anything that illuminates the career of F. Scott Fitzgerald is worth reading—and because it is the only published novel of a brave and talented woman who is remembered for her defeats. Zelda herself alludes to the assault in her unfinished novel, Caesar's Things. In June 1922, a piece by Zelda Fitzgerald, "Eulogy on the Flapper," was published in Metropolitan Magazine. As she emerged from the anesthesia, Scott recorded Zelda saying, "Oh, God, goofo I'm drunk. Publicly, this meant little more than napping when they arrived at parties, but privately it increasingly led to bitter fights. Then ask if there are any eggs, and if so try and persuade the cook to poach two of them. Lavish parties, conspicuous consumption, hot jazz, and illegal cocktails combined into a fever-dream of uniquely American overindulgence, marked by iconic fashions and design that retain their sheen of modernity. As Literary Hub notes, Scott's novels had been placed on the Catholic Church's "proscribed list" due to their salacious content — so permission to bury him in his family's plots was denied. Zelda Fitzgerald succeeded, in this novel, in conveying her own heroic desperation to succeed at something of her own, and she also managed to distinguish herself as a writer with, as Edmund Wilson once said of her husband, a 'gift for turning language into something iridescent and surprising. [41] In April 1924, they left for Paris. Beautiful, talented, and deeply flawed, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald battled demons ranging from mental illness to alcoholism and lost. Of Scott's mindset, Milford wrote, "The vehemence of his rancor toward Zelda was clear. [61] In September 1929, she was invited to join the ballet school of the San Carlo Opera Ballet Company in Naples, but, as close as this was to the success she desired, she declined the invitation. After suffering her first mental breakdown in 1930, Fitzgerald struggled with her mental health for the rest of her life. After several stints in sanitariums over the years, she began to spend more and more time at Highland Hospital in Asheville, N.C. As Blue Ridge Country notes, over the final decade of her life she returned to Highland several times for lengthy treatments. She drank, smoked and spent much of her time with boys, and she remained a leader in the local youth social scene. He wrote, \"all criticism of Rosalind ends in her beauty,\"[10] and told Zelda th… As The Washington Post reports, they began writing letters to each other immediately, and the only person who had any doubt that this was the beginning of a great romance was Zelda's mother, who kept giving her daughter newspaper clippings about failed writers. They were quite suddenly rich and famous and soon had a darling baby girl. Discover F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery, Alabama: The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story. "[90], In 1975, however, Scottie successfully campaigned for them to be buried with the other Fitzgeralds at Saint Mary's Catholic Cemetery. [16] Scott was not the only man courting Zelda, and the competition only drove Scott to want her more. [62] While the public still believed the Fitzgeralds to live a life of glamor, friends noted that the couple's partying had somewhere gone from fashionable to self-destructive—both had become unpleasant company. "Introduction: Scott, Zelda, and the culture of Celebrity." Mar 20, 2017 - Explore Valerie Stephens's board "Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda and friends. Author, artist and socialite Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife and muse of author F. Scott Fitzgerald, was born on July 24, 1900. He eventually forced her to make several revisions to the manuscript, and readers may never know how deeply the novel was altered because the original draft is lost. "[24] This Side of Paradise was published on March 26, Zelda arrived in New York on March 30, and on April 3, 1920, before a small wedding party in St. Patrick's Cathedral, they married. [36], As The Beautiful and Damned neared publication, Burton Rascoe, the freshly appointed literary editor of the New York Tribune, approached Zelda for an opportunity to entice readers with a cheeky review of Scott's latest work. As reported by Blue Ridge Country, a few days later a fire broke out in the hospital. The book recast Zelda as an artist in her own right whose talents were belittled by a controlling husband. In 1970, however, the history of Scott and Zelda's marriage saw its most profound revision in a book by Nancy Milford, then a graduate student at Columbia University. A Writer’s Muse. The reviews were not good. A spoiled child, Zelda was doted upon by her mother, but her father, Anthony Dickinson Sayre (1858–1931)[1]—a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and one of Alabama's leading jurists—was a strict and remote man. As Great Writers Inspire notes, they immediately began living beyond their means, paying for lavish houses and expensive dinners, drinking and dancing their nights away. The couple never spoke of the incident, and refused to discuss whether it was a suicide attempt. Scott, she insisted, had not. She helped Scott write the play The Vegetable, but when it flopped the Fitzgeralds found themselves in debt. She was also noted for her design and decorative skills, crafting unique lampshades and other home decor that captured the imagination. In the ‘30s, their lives and marriage started cracking and tumbling down. [34] When Harper & Brothers asked her to contribute to Favorite Recipes of Famous Women she wrote, "See if there is any bacon, and if there is, ask the cook which pan to fry it in. NPR notes that Zelda's behavior was categorized by "periods of depression" followed by "periods of high energy and creativity" — which fits the broad definition of bipolar disorder perfectly. The young couple reveled in their notoriety and their newfound wealth. They personified the life of excess that marked the Roaring Twenties. Publishers knew that they would sell better with Scott's name, and even when she managed to publish a story under her own name they often added his to the byline just to increase sales. They decided to go to Scott's home in St. Paul, Minnesota to have the baby. Sat 20 Apr 2013 19.04 EDT. It is the last of four extant homes that survived their travels across the world. [66] Zelda's father died while Scott was gone, and her health again deteriorated. But his decline was rapid and chaotic. To Zelda's dismay, it sold only 1,392 copies, for which she earned $120.73. She and Scott became emblems of the Jazz Age, for which they are still celebrated. [91], A play based on The Disenchanted opened on Broadway in 1958. [67], In 1932, while being treated at the Phipps Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Zelda had a burst of creativity. I have rarely known a woman who expressed herself so delightfully and so freshly: she had no ready-made phrases on the one hand and made no straining for effect on the other. Photograph: CSU Archives / Everett Collectio. [27] Zelda once jumped into the fountain at Union Square. As The Washington Post notes, he was even having trouble getting hired by Hollywood film studios because of his heavy drinking. Mizener's biography was serialized in The Atlantic Monthly, and a story about the book appeared in Life magazine, then one of America's most widely read and discussed periodicals. [4] He wrote, "all criticism of Rosalind ends in her beauty,"[10] and told Zelda that "the heroine does resemble you in more ways than four. The book and movie painted him in a more sympathetic light than the earlier works. [105], Zelda Fitzgerald's collected writings (including Save Me the Waltz), edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, were published in 1991. She would often interrupt him when he was working, and the two grew increasingly miserable throughout the 1920s. She had the waywardness of a Southern belle and the lack of inhibitions of a child. Though told she has no chance, she perseveres and after three years becomes the lead dancer in an opera company. There was one final insult. !Not necessarily for any Eng. While this plan produced one of the greatest novels of the modern age, it also left Zelda lonely and bored. As Alabama Public Radio notes, it's well-known that F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporated some of Zelda's actual diary entries and witty things she said in conversation into his novels. She is buried next to her parents at St. Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. "[96] New York City's borough of Manhattan's Battery Park's resident wild turkey Zelda (d. 2014)[97] was also named after her, because according to legend during one of Fitzgerald's nervous breakdowns, she went missing and was found in Battery Park, apparently having walked several miles downtown. Zelda used her celebrity to promote her husband's work, writing cheeky, humorous reviews that focused on her need for him to be successful so she could purchase the beautiful clothes she coveted and giving interviews singing his praises. The New Yorker described them merely as "Paintings by the almost mythical Zelda Fitzgerald; with whatever emotional overtones or associations may remain from the so-called Jazz Age." 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