Zelda Fitzgerald (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Sally Cline
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1900-1948
- Setting: The United States and Europe
- Principal Characters: Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gerald Murphy, Sara Murphy, Lubov Egorova
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Husbands, United States or Americans, Wives, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Marriage, 1940’s, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, California, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Mental illness, Novelists, Women, Fame, Dancing or dancers, Mental institutions, hospitals or asylums, 1900’s
- Locales: Europe, United States
Zelda Fitzgerald attained notoriety but little fame in her lifetime. She was known mainly as the southern belle who became a beautiful, zany, and mad wife, a character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life story. In 1970 Nancy Milford published Zelda: A Biography, and much of that was changed. Milford’s Zelda was a woman for the 1970’s. As feminists grew in number, biographers began to focus on literary women. Sisters and wives of noted authors were seen to rival their brothers and husbands. Long, and often unfairly, neglected women poets and novelists were rediscovered and...
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