Zelda Fitzgerald – Flashcards
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Early Life : Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama . Pbs.Org
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Early Life : Zelda bore her first and only child at 21, naming Scottie after her husband . Pbs.Org
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Early Life : In 1928, she decided to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a professional ballerina, and began taking lessons in Paris from a famous dancer . Pbs.Org
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Early Life : She was an icon of the 1920s—dubbed by her husband "the first American Flapper . Pbs. Org
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Early Life : The youngest of six children, her parents raised Zelda as a free-spirited, imaginative and thoroughly spoiled little girl . Pbs.Org
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Trivia Fact: She wrote an autobiography called Save Me the Waltz in 1932 Pbs.Org
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Trivia Fact: She wrote an autobiography called Save Me the Waltz in 1932 Pbs.Org
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Associated With: She was married to famous American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Pbs.Org
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Before fame : She was extremely active as a child, spending most of her time swimming, dancing, and being outdoors. Pbs.Org
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That year, Zelda returned to Montgomery, where she lived under the care of her mother Pbs.Org
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He died of a heart attack there on December 21, 1940. Pbs.Org
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She was a huge influence on his writing, providing much of the material for his novels and short stories throughout their engagement and marriage Pbs.Org
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Zelda bore her first and only child at 21, naming Scottie after her husband. By 1924, Zelda's influence on Scott's writing had become less positive Pbs.Org
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In 1928, she decided to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a professional ballerina, and began taking lessons in Paris from a famous dancer . Pbs.Org
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At the late age of 27, three years of intense ballet work (eight hours a day) damaged her health, and prompted her first mental breakdown, diagnosed as "nervous exhaustion", in 1930. Pbs.Org
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Zelda was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia, and would reside in and out of hospitals for the rest of her life. Pbs.Org
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During her stay at Johns Hopkins hospital in 1932, she wrote her first and only novel: "Save Me the Waltz." Pbs.Org
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Writing was not Zelda's only form of artistic expression - she was also a painter. Pbs.Org
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She painted brilliantly colored whimsical, sometimes fantastical works of art. Pbs.Org
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Her granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, describes Zelda's paintings as "theatrical. Pbs.Org
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They're like on a raised stage floor, and the characters are actors who are before you, waiting to perform. Pbs.Org
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She painted one series based on children's fairy tales such as "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "The Lobster Quadrille," from Alice in Wonderland. Pbs.Org
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The Bible and Zelda's strong religious beliefs inspired another series of illustrations. Pbs.Org
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She also painted from life, creating portraits of both herself and her husband, and depicting scenes from New York in the 1940s. Pbs.Org
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A fire destroyed most paintings, and Zelda even donated some to the army during World War II to be painted over and used as canvas. Pbs.Org
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Perhaps if Zelda had focused on just one form of artistic expression, she would have found her own success and fame independent of her marriage to a famous author. Pbs.Org
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Her accomplishments are still impressive, especially when one takes the context of her life into consideration. Pbs.Org
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As an icon of the Jazz Age, she struggled against her traditional southern upbringing and its societal constraints to create a new, independent identity not just for herself, but for all American women. Pbs.Org
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Things were looking up for Fitzgerald near the end of his life - he won a contract in 1937 to write for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood and fell in love with Sheilah Graham, a movie columnist. Pbs.Org
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He had started writing again - scripts, short-stories, and the first draft of a new novel about Hollywood - when he suffered a heart attack and died in 1940 at the age of 44, a failure in his own mind. Pbs.Org
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Most commonly recognized only as an extravagant drunk, who epitomized the excesses of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's work did not earn the credibility and recognition it holds today until years after his death. Pbs.Org
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Zelda suffered several breakdowns in both her physical and mental health, and sought treatment in and out of clinics from 1930 until her death (due to a fire at Highland Hospital in North Carolina in 1948). Pbs.Org
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Zelda's mental illness, the subject of Fitzgerald's fourth novel, "Tender is the Night," had a debilitating effect on Scott's writing. Pbs.Org
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He described his own "crack-up" in an essay that he wrote in 1936, hopelessly in debt, unable to write, nearly estranged from his wife and daughter, and incapacitated by excessive drinking and poor physical health. Pbs.Org
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The extravagant living made possible by such success, however, took its toll. Constantly globe-trotting (living at various times in several different cities in Italy, France, Switzerland, and eight of the United States), the Fitzgeralds tried in vain to escape or at least seek respite from Scott's alcoholism and Zelda's mental illness. Pbs.Org
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"The Beautiful and the Damned" a year after they were married. Three years later, after the birth of their first and only child, Scottie, Fitzgerald completed his best-known work Pbs.Org
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Happily, Scribners finally accepted the novel after Fitzgerald rewrote it for the third time as "This Side of Paradise", and published it a year later. Pbs.Org
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Scribners rejected his novel for a second time, and so Fitzgerald turned to advertising as a steady source of income Pbs.Org
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The Romantic Egoist" and resubmit it for publication. Meanwhile, fate, in the form of the U.S. army, stationed him near Montgomery, Alabama in 1918, where he met and fell in love with an 18-year-old Southern belle - Zelda Sayre. Pbs.Org
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At 21 years of age, he submitted his first novel for publication and Charles Scribner's Sons rejected it, but with words of encouragement Pbs.Org
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Beginning a pattern of constant revising that would characterize his writing style for the rest of his career, Fitzgerald decided to rewrite "The Romantic Egoist" and resubmit it for publication. Meanwhile, fate, in the form of the U.S. army, Pbs.Org
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Fitzgerald started writing at an early age. His high school newspaper published his detective stories, encouraging him to pursue writing more enthusiastically than academics Pbs.Org
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zelda began dancing lesson earlliest 1917 Pbs.Org
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zelda was very demanded for local charity events Pbs.Org
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Before Fame: She was extremely active as a child, spending most of her time swimming, dancing, and being outdoors. famous birthday.com
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Trivia Fact: She wrote an autobiography called Save Me the Waltz in 1932. famous birthday.com
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Family Life: Zelda's parents were named Minervva Buckner Machen and Anthony Dickinson Syre. famous birthday.com
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Associated With: She was married to famous American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. famous birthday.com
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About: Writer, painter, dancer, and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, known for her tremendous social appetite and mental illness. famous birthday.com
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Frances and Zelda are buried in the Saint Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland and the inscription on their tombstone reads: hub pages.com
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She met F. Scott Fitzgerald shortly after high school and they had a whirlwind courtship hub pages.com
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It was love at first sight for Scott but not so much for Zelda, she was still seeing other men which made him quite frantic to get a ring on her finger, which he managed to do in 1920 hub pages.com
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The constant fighting and discourse left its toll on the couple and Zelda had what was called a nervous breakdown back then. hub pages.com
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Zelda very much still, but just couldn't deal with her personality disorder and her behavior, which sadly turned out that she had schizophrenia hub pages.com
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. Scott Fitzgerald's cousin 3 times removed was Francis Scott Key, (August 1, 1779 - January 11, 1843) the man who penned our national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner". hub pages.com
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was also the first cousin once removed of Mary Surrat, hanged in 1865 for conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln hub pages.com
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The couple had one child named Scottie and in 1975, she had their bodies moved to be buried next to each other in the official Fitzgerald plot. hub pages.com
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heir daughter Scottie wrote after their deaths: "I think (short of documentary evidence to the contrary) that if people are not crazy, they get themselves out of crazy situations, so I have never been able to buy the notion that it was my father's drinking which led her to the sanitarium. Nor do I think she led him to the drinking". hub pages.com
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Meanwhile another tragedy struck years later while Zelda was still in the sanitarium, there was a fire that started out in the kitchen of the hospital. hub pages.com
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Many of the patients died and Zelda was one of the victims. She died when she was only 48 years old. hub pages.com
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I was in the 9th grade and we were supposed to do a report on a famous person. This was not a problem for me, as I have always enjoyed history and reading about famous people, and different eras, especially the dark ages and the age of Enlightenment. I also enjoy the turn of the 20th century, hub pages.com
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Late on the night of March 10, 1948, a fire started in a kitchen of the main building of Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina unc.edu.
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Zelda Sayre, the daughter of an Alabama state supreme court justice, met Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in 1918. unc.edu
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In 1940 Carroll agreed to release Zelda to live with her widowed mother in Montgomery. Over the next decade Zelda returned several times to Highland for brief periods of treatment, including the visit which ended in her death in the fire of March 10. unc.edu
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By the time of the tragic fire, Highland Hospital had become part of the Duke University medical system where it remained until Duke closed the hospital in 1980. unc.edu
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With the substantial income from Fitzgerald's short stories and novels Scott and Zelda lived a life of excitement and sophistication in Europe and America. unc.edu
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Writer/Artist. Zelda Sayre was the youngest child of Judge Anthony Dickinson Sayre and his wife Minnie. findagrave.com
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. As a child and teenager, she led a wild existance in the quiet town of Montgomery, AL. She met F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1918 and after the publication of his first novel "This Side of Paradise" they married on April 3rd, 1920. findagrave.com
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Their only child, Frances Scott Fitzgerald, was born in October 1921. findagrave.com
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Her marriage to Scott was not perfect, while their antics catapulted them to celebrity status and were fictionalized in Scott's books, there were also fights, affairs, and constant problems with debt. findagrave.com
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They moved to several places around New York, St. Paul and France for the first few years. findagrave.com
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At the age of 27, Zelda began ballet lessons with Madame Lubov Egorova in hopes of becoming a prima ballerina, which at her age was impossible findagrave.com
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Beginning in 1930, Zelda would be committed (and released) to several mental institutions after being diagnosed with schizophrenia, the final time committing herself to Highland Hospital in Asheville, NC findagrave.com
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. In 1932, she published her only novel "Save Me the Waltz", which was an almost autobiographical account of her life up to that point. She also published a play, "Scandalabra"; several short stories and articles; and she also created a large number of paintings, paper dolls, and sketches which some were intended to be passed on to her daughter and grandchildren. findagrave.com
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After Scott passed away in 1940, she began a second novel, "Caesar's Things" which was never finished and covered similar ground as her first book. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald died in a fire which broke out at Highland Hospital on March 10th, 1948. findagrave.com
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Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was the muse of the Jazz Age flapperjane.com
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She was the embodiment of all things modern and new, the prototype for every flapper to follow. She described herself as "without a thought for anyone else...I did not have a single feeling of inferiority, or shyness, or doubt, and no moral principles flapperjane.com
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Zelda first tried to express herself through writing. She had always kept a diary, which she showed to Scott while they were courting flapperjane.com
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After her breakdown, Zelda was no longer allowed to continue her dancing lessons flapperjane.com
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She fell back on writing as a means to purge the past and give herself creative expression. flapperjane.com
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She began writing an autobiographical novel, Save Me the Waltz, which drew on her marriage to Scott, her obsession with ballet, and her nervous breakdowns. flapperjane.com
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Scott was furious about Zelda's novel, which he felt poached on his territory—he was using the same material for his latest novel, Tender Is the Night. Zelda prevailed but her novel caused a bitter rift between the couple, and it was not published until Scott approved major rewrites. flapperjane.com
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Zelda continued writing bits and pieces, including a play, Scandalabra, but her bitter fight with Scott over Waltz made her seek another means of expression, one that could not be governed by him and which allowed her full control. flapperjane.com
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Zelda began painting two years later, in 1934 flapperjane.com
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She worked in oils, pastels, and watercolors, often using dancers as her favorite theme. According to biographer Kendall Taylor, Zelda depicted dancers "with swollen joints and deformed legs in tortuous training, bodies so distorted they lacked gender. flapperjane.com
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When asked why she painted the dancers this way, Zelda responded, "That's how a ballet dancer feels after dancing. It wasn't the dancers but the step itself that I wanted to paint."[xi] An exhibition of Zelda's work ran at Cary Ross's Manhattan studio March 29—April 30, 1934. flapperjane.com
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When asked to summarize her famous parents' marriage, Scottie Fitzgerald said, "It is my impression that my father greatly appreciated and encouraged his wife's unusual talents and ebullient imagination flapperjane.com
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Zelda and Scott seldom lived together after her 1932 breakdown, although they remained married and Scott provided for Zelda's care, until his death in 1940 flapperjane.com
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They still loved each other even though it was a love tinged with bitterness and regret. As Scott explained, "Liquor on my breath is sweet to her. I cherish her most extravagant hallucinations flapperjane.com
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Though she is gone, Zelda's spirit lives on in Alabama in Save Me the Waltz; Rosamond, Daisy, Nicole, and Gloria in Scott's novels; in the canvases she painted to reflect her tortured training as a ballerina flapperjane.com
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elda Sayre Fitzgerald is the one of the most enduring, tragic, and legendary figures of the Jazz Age. As Zelda said to Scott in 1919, before they were married, "Why should graves make people feel in vain? Somehow I can't find anything hopeless in having lived. flapperjane.com
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Zelda's influence on Scott's fiction in this period is inestimable
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Zelda became an instant celebrity; and for the first half of the 1920s, she frequently contributed her opinions on modern love, marriage, and childrearing to an eager media
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he Fitzgeralds parted ways in 1934, although they never divorced
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The Fitzgeralds' story—of which Alabama is an indelible part—continues to fascinate scholars and the general public and has inspired an array of academic studies, movies, documentaries, and even musicals.
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In recent years, scholars have both taught and written about Save Me the Waltz with increasing frequency, and exhibitions of Zelda's surviving artwork regularly travel the United State
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Zelda next turned to painting, but she fared no better.
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Although Zelda was treated for schizophrenia, mental-health experts later would contest both the diagnosis and recovery regimen prescribed by her main physician, Dr. Oscar Forel).
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In 1930, stress resulting from her frustrated attempts to become a professional ballerina led to the first of what would be many psychological breakdowns
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In fact, Scott's agent or editors added his name in several instances without his knowledge because the joint byline increased the price that these works received from leading magazines. Claims that Zelda "co-authored" her husband's writing certainly are exaggerated, but few would deny that her personality was (and remains) key to its appeal.
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