Free Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise by Sally Cline

‘Living Well is the Best Revenge’, New Yorker, 28 July 1962
    Vincent, Sally, ‘Georgia O’Keeffe: All Woman’, Guardian Weekend, 28 Apr. 2001

1. Minnie Machen Sayre, born 1860, Zelda’s mother: an avid reader
    2. Judge Anthony Sayre, Zelda’s father, in 1880. Zelda called him ‘a living fortress’
    3. The Church of the Holy Comforter, Montgomery, where Minnie Sayre played the organ and sang in the choir and Zelda was baptized

    4. Marjorie Sayre, Zelda’s eldest sister, born 1886: a frail nervous girl
    5. Rosalind (Tootsie) Sayre, born 1889. Zelda’s middle sister, stalwart and feisty
    6. Clothilde (Tilde) Sayre, born 1891. Zelda’s youngest sister, the model for Joan in Save Me The Waltz
    7. Anthony Sayre Jnr, born 1894. Zelda’s brother and rival. In Caesar’s Things heroine Janno’s brother was partly based on young Anthony

    8. Zelda aged around eighteen in dance costume in her mother’s garden in Montgomery

    9. Katharine Elsberry Steiner, Zelda’s Montgomery soulmate. She and Zelda looked alike, dressed alike, and often thought alike
    10. Off for a picnic. Zelda (second from right) unsmiling, with Grace Gunter and their friends in regulation white middy blouses and black ties

    11. Scott Fitzgerald, 1921–2, in Dellwood where he and Zelda enjoyed life in the resort on White Bear Lake

    12. Zelda and Scott go swimming at Compo Beach, Westport Connecticut, July 1920

    13. Zelda in white knickerbockers, her outrageous travelling outfit for the Fitzgeralds’ auto trip south to Montgomery, 1920
    14. Zelda and Scott pose for a Hearst’s International Magazine photograph, 1923. Zelda called it her ‘Elizabeth Arden face’ and pasted it in her scrapbook

    15. Marie Hersey, Scott’s school chum and later confidante in his home town St Paul, Minnesota
    16. Xandra Kalman, c . 1921: Zelda’s closest, most supportive friend during her young motherhood days in St Paul
    17. Sara Haardt, Zelda’s frail writer friend from Montgomery who died aged 37 in 1935. Sara always received more encouragement for her writing from her husband H.L. Mencken than Zelda did from Scott
    18. Critic H.L. Mencken, Scott’s literary mentor. Mencken encouraged and published Haardt’s fiction then after a long courtship married her in 1930, the year Zelda had her first breakdown

    19. Annabel Fitzgerald, Scott’s sister, 1919, aged eighteen. ‘Scott advised his sister on conversation, couture and cosmetics and on how to listen to men’
    20. The Fitzgerald family in the waves. Early happy years for Zelda, Scott and Scottie

    21. Lubov Egorova, Zelda’s beloved ballet teacher, autographed Paris 1928
    22. Painter Romaine Brooks whom Zelda met on Capri, 1925
    23. Parisian influences: writers Natalie Barney and Djuna Barnes, Nice, France 1928–30. Zelda frequented Barney’s literary salon in rue Jacob, Paris
    24. Emily Vanderbilt, who fascinated both Zelda and Scott and who committed suicide in May 1934

    25. The beach at La Garoupe raked by Gerald Murphy, seen here under umbrellas with his wife Sara and Etienne and Edith de Beaumont, c . 1924. Zelda and Scott visited regularly from their villa at Juan-les-Pins
    26. Ernest Hemingway, Zelda’s enemy and Scott’s hero, 1931. Hemingway’s comic inscription to Scott on this photograph lewdly suggested he was the adventurous Princetonian travel writer Halliburton
    27. Max Perkins, Scott’s consistently generous publishing editor at Scribner’s

    28. Zelda Sayre in June 1918, as she looked when Scott first met her in Montgomery
    29. ‘Birth of a Flapper’: Zelda’s earliest known drawing, crayon on paper, 1921: her book jacket design for Scott’s The Beautiful and Damned

    30. ‘Family in Underwear’, one of Zelda’s earliest paper dolls featuring herself, her husband and child, c. 1927
    31. Times Square New York (gouache on paper, 13½” x 17⅝”), c. 1944. One of the romantic cityscapes Zelda painted after Scott’s death, as a memory of the places they had visited