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Zelda: A Biography - Nancy Milford


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Zelda: A Biography - Nancy Milford

 
Description: ISBN 0060910690 / Author: Nancy Milford / Genre: Biography / Recounts the life of the capricious southern belle who was F. Scott ... more
Zelda: A Biography - Nancy Milford ... Fitzgeral wife.

Newest Review: ... itself to accommodate their unfulfilled dreams. *** Zelda Sayre was born in Montgomery, Alabama, at the very dawn ... more

 ... of the Twentieth Century. Her background was unimpeachably upper class, in so far as such terms applied in the New World, and she grew up in the fold of a Confederate Establishment, whilst the Old South drew its final gasp around her. Zelda’s childhood was characterised by romance and affluence. Her father was a Supreme Court Judge, a model of reserve and respectability. Milford describes Zelda’s mother as an intelligent and eccentric woman, who, in her youth, had nurtured dreams of appearing upon the stage, drea...more

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Crowned Review Zelda: A Biography - Nancy Milford: The Legend of Zelda...Queen of The Jazz Age (1704 words)
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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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