edgar allan poe/ f scott fitzgerald – Flashcards

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edgar saw this group of people as angelic
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women
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edgar's mother was an
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actress
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edgar's mother died of
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tuberculosis
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edgar was taken in by the ________ family
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Allan
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as a young boy, Edgar was in love with her. he was very sad when she died
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his friend's mom
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edgar went to college here
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UVA
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Edgar had to leave UVA because of
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debt
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Edgar was devastated when this women, his foster mother, died
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Mrs. Allan
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After mrs. Allan died, Edgar moved in with...
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aunt clem and cousin virginia
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John Allan left edgar this when he summoned him to his deathbed in 1834
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jack ****
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edgar married his cousin named
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virginia
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edward screwed himself over when he met witht his person to ask for a job
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president
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edgar's stories were mostly about
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death, abandonment, and the afterlife
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aka "red death"
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tuburculosis
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virginia was doing this when she coughed up blood and edgar realized she too had tuburculosis
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singing
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this poem of Poe's became popular but didn't bring him a fortune
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The Raven
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poem written by poe about Virginia after her death
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Annabel Lee
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woman Poe desperately tried to pick up after Virginia's death
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helen whitman
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edgar was found in this condition on a Baltimore street; he was taken to the hospital where he died
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passed out
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this is Scott's birth city
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St. Paul, minnesotta
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this is what scott's father was
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failure
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this talent helped scott fit in in the wealthy prep school he attended
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writing
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school where fitzgerald attended college, wrote for the triangle club, then dropped out of due to a drinking problem and lack of academic focus
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princeton
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debutant fitzgerald dated but couldn't marry her because he was too poor, first "golden girl"
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generva
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girl fitzgerald met at dance when she was 17, sought-after crazy "golden girl" fell in love with her
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zelda
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scott's wife's name
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zelda
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scott's first novel published in 1920, big success which made scott succesful enough for Zelda to marry him
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This Side of Paradise
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"king of the jazz age"
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fitzgerald
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"queen of the flappers"
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zelda
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scott and zelda's daughter born 1921
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Frances scott fitzgerald
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fitzgerald's second book, reflected scott and zelda's downturn marriage and alcoholism
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the beautiful and damned
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this is where the fitzgeralds moved so scott could write the great gatsby
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europe
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this social scene is the one that the fitzgeralds once again got caught up in but were trying to avoid
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french riviera
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year the great gatsby was published
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1925
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scott's fellow author friend, drinking buddies, but also the two had an intense rivalry and tried to bring one another down
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ernest hemmingway
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zelda began to lose her mind and was later diagnosed as this
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schizzophrenic
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scott's novel after the great gatsby, not succesful
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tender is the night
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scott struggled with this disease throughout his lifetime
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alcoholism
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the name of scott's 1936 publishing in Esquire Magazine that was a self tell-all and hurt his reputation
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the crack up
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scott worked for this company as an unsuccesful screenwriter
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goldwin meyer
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scott's columnist girlfriend in hollywood after Zelda went bonkers
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sheila graham
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the only work scott wrote that got him a screen credit
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three comrades
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this was how old scott was when he died in a drinking-related massive heart attack in 1940
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44
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this is the way zelda died in a hospital when she was 48
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fire
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this is the decade in which scott's books became popular again and he gained fame
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50's
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