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Zelda Sayre was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on July 24, 1900, the youngest of six children. [1] Her parents were Episcopalians. [29] Her mother, Minerva Buckner "Minnie" Machen, named her daughter after the Roma heroine in a novel, presumably Jane Howard's "Zelda: A Tale of the Massachusetts Colony" (1866) or Robert Edward Francillon's "Zelda's Fortune" (1874). [30]
Scott Fitzgerald first arrived in Montgomery, Alabama in June, 1918 when he was assigned to Camp Sheridan during World War I. He met his future wife, Zelda Sayre, at a country club dance in Montgomery the following month. Zelda, a local debutante, grew up in Montgomery's Cottage Hill Historic District.
Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald (October 26, 1921 – June 18, 1986) was an American writer and journalist and the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She matriculated from Vassar College and worked for The Washington Post , The New Yorker , and other publications. [ 1 ]
A new hotel on Biltmore Avenue in the South Slope will turn three century-old homes into a 20-room hotel honoring Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.
Her husband F Scott Fitzgerald called her ‘America’s first flapper’, but Zelda Fitzgerald, who died 75 years ago, was much more than the tragic wife and muse of a famous male writer. Kat ...
At a country club, Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre, a 17-year-old Southern belle and the affluent granddaughter of a Confederate senator whose extended family owned the first White House of the Confederacy. [b] [46] Zelda was one of the most celebrated debutantes of Montgomery's exclusive country club set. [47]
Save Me the Waltz is a 1932 novel by American writer Zelda Fitzgerald.The novel's plot follows the privileged life of Alabama Beggs, a Southern belle who grows up the Deep South during the Jim Crow era and marries David Knight, an aspiring painter.
The hotel is primarily inspired by Zelda Fitzgerald, who spent the last several years of her life in Asheville until her death in a tragic fire at Highland Hospital in Montford on March 10, 1948.