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‘I don’t want you to see me growing old and ugly…we’ll just have to die when we’re thirty.’ Zelda Fitzgerald, 1919. Zelda Fitzgerald, whose sentimental mother had named her after a gypsy queen she’d once read about in a novel, became royalty of her own sort at the height of the decadent twenties. As muse to and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, she presided over a generation of Jazz Age flappers, and her beautiful, bobbed profile epitomised an era. Scott Fitzgerald found inspiration for his fiction in the hedonistic whirl around him. His subsequent fame allowed the Fitzgeralds to join the party, but ultimately, it was a lifestyle destined to destroy ... Read the complete review
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