Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
American
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1900/07/24 | Minerva Buckner Machen, wife of Anthony Dickinson Sayre, gives birth to a daughter, Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama. Zelda is the youngest of six children. | Born | |||||
| 1909/00/00 | The Sayres family rents 6 Pleasant Avenue (lost) in Montgomery, Alabama. The residence, a block south of Winter Place, was demolished in the 1970s. | Home Locale | Winter Place | Montgomery, AL | |||
| 1910/00/00 | Zelda Sayre attends the Sayre Street School. | Education | Sayre Street School | Montgomery, AL | |||
| 1913/11/21 | Marjorie Machen Rieke, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's aunt, kills herself in the outhouse at the Sayre home 6 Pleasant Avenue (lost, steps remain, now 530 Pleasant Ave) in Montgomery, Alabama. | Family | Cottage Hill The Gump | ||||
| 1918/00/00 | Spring 1918, Zelda Sayre graduates from Sydney Lanier High School in Montgomery, Alabama. Miss Sayre started at the school in 1914. | Education | Baldwin Arts and Academics Magnet School | Montgomery, AL | |||
| 1918/07/00 | In the summer of 1918, Zelda Sayre meets Army Lt F Scott Fitzgerald from Camp Sheridan during a dance at the Montgomery Country Club (lost, current clubhouse built 1990) on Narrow Lane Rd, Montgomery, Alabama. | Bride | Marriage of Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald | ||||
| 1918/09/07 | F Scott Fitzgerald falls in love with Zelda Sayre. Noted for her beauty and high spirits, Scott calls her "the first American Flapper". | Bride | Marriage of Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald | ||||
| 1919/00/00 | "the tombstones in the Confederate Cemetery at Oakwood" was "her favorite place to be when she felt quite alone." daughter, Scottie Fitzgerald | Bride | The Ice Palace (short story) | Oakwood Cemetery | Montgomery, AL | ||
| 1919/06/00 | By June 1919, Zelda Sayre breaks her engagement with Scoot Fitzgerald over fears his would never make enough money career as a writer to support them. | Bride | Marriage of Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald | ||||
| 1920/03/00 | I love you so terribly that I'm going to read "McTeague" - but you may have to marry a corpse when I finish. It certainly makes a miserable start - I don't see how any girl could be pretty with her front teeth lost in action, - Zelda letter to Scott | Bride | McTeague: A Story of San Francisco | ||||
| 1920/03/00 | With the proceeds from 'Head and Shoulders', Scott buys Zelda a $600 platinum and diamond wristwatch which he sends to her. "O, Scott, its so be-au-ti-ful" - Zelda letter to Scott | Bride | Head and Shoulders (short story) | Marriage of Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald | |||
| 1920/04/00 | F Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre marry in the rectory of St Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. The choice of St Patrick's was suggested by the bride's mother as a location Scott would like. | Bride | St Patrick's Cathedral | New York City | Marriage of Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 1921/00/00 | Montgomery native, Zelda Fitzgerald, and her husband Scott enjoy hot dogs at Chris' on Dexter Avenue. | Bride | Chris' Famous Hotdogs | Montgomery, AL | |||
| 1922/04/00 | "Friend Husband's Latest" by Zelda Fitzgerald is published in New York Tribune. | Author | |||||
| 1922/06/00 | "Eulogy on the Flapper" by Zelda Fitzgerald is printed in Metropolitan Magazine. | Author | |||||
| 1922/10/00 | Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald move to Great Neck. Staying until April 1924, Scott works on "The Great Gatsby". | Home | The Great Gatsby (book) | F Scott Fitzgerald Home | North Hempstead | ||
| 1923/02/00 | As Zelda and Anita Loos dine at Great Neck, a drunken Scott Fitzgerald throws a wine cooler, a lighted candelabra, a water carafe and a leg of lamb at them screaming "Now I'm going to kill you!" The ladies flee to Ring Larder's house. | Life | F Scott Fitzgerald Home | North Hempstead | |||
| 1923/02/00 | As Zelda and Anita Loos dine at Great Neck, a drunken Scott Fitzgerald throws a wine cooler, a lighted candelabra, a water carafe and a leg of lamb at them screaming "Now I'm going to kill you!" The ladies flee to Ring Larder's house. | Health | F Scott Fitzgerald Home | North Hempstead | |||
| 1925/00/00 | French Aviator, Edward Josaune, and flapper, Zelda Fitzgerald have a romantic affair. | Life | |||||
| 1928/05/00 | While living at 58 Rue Vaugirard over 5 months, Zelda Fitzgerald, increasingly hysterical, studies ballet with Madame Lubov Egorova in Paris. | Home | |||||
| 1930/04/23 | After suffering her first nervous breakdown, Zelda Fitzgerald is admitted to the Sanatorium de la Malmaison outside Paris in . | Health | Chateau de Malmaison | Rueil-Malmaison | |||
| 1930/05/01 | Disliking the Malmaison Clinic, Zelda Fitzgerald checks herself out of the sanitarium after less than two weeks and goes directly to Egorova's studio, saying she needs work or she will die. | Health | Chateau de Malmaison | Rueil-Malmaison | |||
| 1930/05/22 | After Zelda experiences hallucinations and attempts suicide, Scott takes her to Val-Mont Clinic in Glion in Switzerland where she is examined by Dr Oscar Forel. | Health | |||||
| 1930/06/05 | Scott commits Zelda against her will into Les Rives de Prangins Clinic near Nyon, on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. | Health | |||||
| 1931/09/15 | Zelda is released from Les Rives de Prangins Clinic and the Fitzgeralds return home to America aboard the RMS AQUITANIA. | Life | |||||
| 1931/10/00 | Scott, Zelda and their daughter, Scottie, move to a Craftsman-style house near Zelda's parents in Montgomery, Alabama. Scott will later look back on "all the horrors in Montgomery." | Home | Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald House, Montgomery | Montgomery, AL | |||
| 1931/12/00 | "Miss Ella" a short story by Zelda Fitzgerald is published in Scribner's Magazine. | Author | |||||
| 1931/12/00 | When Scott arrives home from California, Zelda, standing on the sunporch, points with pride to her new short story "Miss Ella" in Scribner's Magazine and tells him about the novel she is writing. | Author | Save Me the Waltz (book) | Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald House, Montgomery | Montgomery, AL | ||
| 1932/02/00 | On a dreary February day, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald depart from Montgomery Union Station en route to Baltimore, heading for the Phipps Clinic. | Health | Montgomery Union Station | Montgomery, AL | |||
| 1932/02/12 | Zelda Fitzgerald is admitted to the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic. Her doctor suggest Scott should check himself in also. | Health | Phipps Building | Baltimore, MD | |||
| 1932/03/09 | At the Phipps Clinic, Zelda Fitzgerald completes her autobiographical novel "Save Me the Waltz", presenting major events in her life through a protagonist named Alabama Beggs. | Author | Save Me the Waltz (book) | Phipps Building | Baltimore, MD | ||
| 1932/05/20 | Fitzgerald's rent a house at La Paix, the estate of Bayard Turnbull. The Fitzgerald family moves after a fire, which officials attribute to electrical problems but many people blame Zelda. Site: St Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr, Towson | Home | |||||
| 1932/06/00 | "The Continental Angel" by Zelda Fitzgerald is published by The New Yorker. | Author | |||||
| 1932/06/26 | Zelda is discharged from Phipps Clinic and joins her family at La Paix. | Health | Phipps Building | Baltimore, MD | |||
| 1932/08/00 | "A Couple of Nuts" by Zelda Fitzgerald appears in Scribner's Magazine. | Author | |||||
| 1932/10/07 | "Save Me the Waltz" by Zelda Fitzgerald is published by Charles Scribners Sons with a printing of 3,010 copies (not unusually low for a first novel in the middle of the Great Depression). Selling only 1,392 copies, Zelda will earn $120.73. | Author | Save Me the Waltz (book) | ||||
| 1933/08/27 | Suffering from "nervous prostration", Anthony Sayre Jr, brother of Zelda Sayre, kills himself by leaping from his hospital window in Mobile, Alabama. Mr Sayre is buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, AL. | Family | Oakwood Cemetery | Montgomery, AL | |||
| 1933/12/00 | At the end of November through December, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald vacation in Bermuda. | Visitors | |||||
| 1934/01/00 | Zelda Fitzgerald is admitted to Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Maryland. | Health | Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital and Gatehouse | Towson, MD | |||
| 1934/03/00 | Scott Fitzgerald moves Zelda to the expensive Craig House sanitarium in New York. The monthly fees at the hospital are $750. | Health | Tioranda, Beacon | Beacon, NY | |||
| 1934/03/29 | An exhibition of Zelda Fitzgerald's art work opens at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City as part of the publicity for "Tender Is the Night". The show will close in April, 1934. | Artist | Tender is the Night | Algonquin Hotel | New York City | ||
| 1934/05/19 | Zelda Fitzgerald is transferred back to Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Maryland. | Health | Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital and Gatehouse | Towson, MD | |||
| 1934/06/09 | I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves.... I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes (Southern slang for spiked cola)...." Zelda Fitzgerald letter to F Scott sent from Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital | Life | Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital and Gatehouse | Towson, MD | |||
| 1936/04/08 | Scott Fitzgerald transferres Zelda to Highland Hospital in North Carolina. | Health | Montford Area Historic District | Asheville | |||
| 1948/03/10 | Zelda Fitzgerald and 8 other women die in a fire at Highland Hospital on Zillicoa St - building destroyed, now a grassy field surrounded by oaks | Died | Montford Area Historic District | Asheville | |||
| 1975/00/00 | The remains of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald are moved to a family plot at St Mary's Church. | In Memoriam | Third Addition to Rockville and Old St Mary's Church and Cemetery | Rockville |
1 Creative Work by Zelda Fitzgerald »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| Save Me the Waltz (book) | Author | Novel | 1932/10/07 |
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