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Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald an American woman's life

Linda Wagner-Martin's Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is a twenty-first century story. Wagner-Martin provides fascinating new insight into the glamorous yet tragic life of the Southern Belle who married F. Scott Fitzgerald. Swept away from her stable homelife into Jazz Age New York and Paris, Zelda eventually learned to be a writer and a painter and came close to being a ballerina. This book uniquely explores Zelda's family history and childhood - by looking at her upbringing in the Deep South and the influence this had on her character the book shows more poignantly her demise into drink, adultery and madness. It also includes analysis of recently uncovered psychiatric reports that reveal new information about Zelda's mental illness, the plausibility of her mis-diagnosis and the treatment of mentally ill patients in the 1930s/40s. An evocative portrayal of a talented woman's professional and emotional conflicts, this study contains intriguing new research and previously unpublished photographs.

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  • "Linda Wagner-Martin's Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is a twenty-first century story. Wagner-Martin provides fascinating new insight into the glamorous yet tragic life of the Southern Belle who married F. Scott Fitzgerald. Swept away from her stable homelife into Jazz Age New York and Paris, Zelda eventually learned to be a writer and a painter and came close to being a ballerina. This book uniquely explores Zelda's family history and childhood - by looking at her upbringing in the Deep South and the influence this had on her character the book shows more poignantly her demise into drink, adultery and madness. It also includes analysis of recently uncovered psychiatric reports that reveal new information about Zelda's mental illness, the plausibility of her mis-diagnosis and the treatment of mentally ill patients in the 1930s/40s. An evocative portrayal of a talented woman's professional and emotional conflicts, this study contains intriguing new research and previously unpublished photographs."@en
  • "Linda Wagner-Martin has created a new kind of biography of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: Zelda's story from her perspective, instead of her famous husband's. This is the first biography to tell her entire life story, describing what it meant to be born in 1900, and then to be a "New Woman" in Montgomery, Alabama. Featuring for the first time information from the newly available archives at Princeton, Wagner-Martin vividly illustrates Zelda's psychiatric landscape. Detailed discussions of the roots of alcoholism and infidelity are juxtaposed with the first comprehensive critiques of Zelda's diverse artistic accomplishments as a dancer, short story writer, essayist and novelist. This is an evocative portrayal of a talented woman's professional and emotional conflicts, a story with as much relevance today as it had half a century ago."

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  • "Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald"
  • "Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald : an American woman's life"

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