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Zelda Fitzgerald - Her Voice in Paradise (Paperback, Main)
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Zelda Fitzgerald - Her Voice in Paradise (Paperback, Main)
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Zelda Fitzgerald, along with her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald, is
remembered above all else as a personification of the style and
glamour of the roaring twenties - an age of carefree affluence such
as the world has not seen since. But along with the wealth and
parties came a troubled mind, at a time when a woman exploiting her
freedom of expression was likely to attract accusations of
insanity. After 1934 Zelda spent most of her life in a mental
institution; outliving her husband by few years, she died in a fire
as she was awaiting electroconvulsive therapy in a sanatorium.
Zelda's story has often been told by detractors, who would cast her
as a parasite in the marriage - most famously, Ernest Hemingway
accused her of taking pleasure in blunting her husband's genius;
when she wrote her autobiographical novel, Fitzgerald himself
complained she had used his material. But was this fair, when
Fitzgerald's novels were based on their life together? Sally
Cline's biography, first published in 2003, makes use of letters,
journals, and doctor's records to detail the development of their
marriage, and to show the collusion between husband and doctors in
a misdirected attempt to 'cure' Zelda's illness. Their prescription
- no dancing, no painting, and above all, no writing - left her
creative urges with no outlet, and was bound to make matters worse
for a woman who thrived on the expression of allure and wealth.
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