In March of 1948, her doctors told her they considered her stable enough to go home again. "[109], In 1992, Zelda was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame. The comfortable chairs. [80] Despite the excitement of the affair, Scott was bitter and burned out. As PBS Newshour reports, Scott suffered from cardiomyopathy and coronary artery disease and had a mild heart attack in October 1940. As a result, Zelda's literary reputation was always unfairly obscured by her more famous husband. In an embellishment, the Fitzgeralds told the Hemingways that the affair ended when Jozan committed suicide. His decline was obvious, to both himself and literary critics. While he was there, the Armistice with Germany was signed. It evaporated easily, however, and I remember only one thing she said that night: that the writing of Galsworthy was a shade of blue for which she did not care. He was in the army, and she was the wild child of a local judge. As such, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan of The Great Gatsby are an imagined version of Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda at the pinnacle of their existence: young, wealthy and beautiful. He eventually forced her to make several revisions to the manuscript, and readers may never know how deeply the novel was altered because the original draft is lost. The piece led to Zelda receiving offers from other magazines. The museum is in a house they briefly rented in 1931 and 1932. In 1918, Scott showed her diary to his friend Peevie Parrot who then shared it with George Jean Nathan. [13], F. Scott Fitzgerald was known to appreciate and take from Zelda's letters, even plagiarising her diary while he was writing This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby. Consequently, Sayre's antics were shocking to many of those around her, and she became—along with her childhood friend and future Hollywood starlet Tallulah Bankhead—a mainstay of Montgomery gossip. Zelda Fitzgerald is mainly remembered as the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a woman who burst onto the public scene a glamorous symbol of the Roaring Twenties and then fell into a deep hole of mental illness. [110], Zelda (first) in a 1918 photo for her high school year book, and Zelda (second) at 19 years old in a dance costume, Zelda's artwork has been reappraised in recent decades. Four of the women, including Fitzgerald, had been given strong sedatives, so it's likely she died in her sleep. [75] The failure of Save Me the Waltz, and Scott's scathing criticism of her for having written it—he called her "plagiaristic"[76] and a "third-rate writer"[76]—crushed her spirits. "[24] This Side of Paradise was published on March 26, Zelda arrived in New York on March 30, and on April 3, 1920, before a small wedding party in St. Patrick's Cathedral, they married. F. Scott Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre on April 3, 1920, in New York City. 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