by Sally Cline
Sayre, Judge Anthony Dickinson, 1, 2;
breakdowns, 1, 2, 3;
death, 1;
family background, 1;
and FSF, 1, 2, 3;
health, 1;
marriage, 1, 2, 3;
sense of responsibility, 1;
ZSF’s relationship with, 1, 2
Sayre, Anthony Dickinson Jnr (‘Tony’), 1;
breakdown and suicide, 1, 2, 3;
career, 1
Sayre, Calvin, 1
Sayre, Clothilde see Palmer
Sayre, Daniel (ZSF’s brother), 1, 2
Sayre, Daniel (ZSF’s grandfather), 1, 2
Sayre, Daniel Morgan (ZSF’s uncle), 1
Sayre, Edith, 1, 2
Sayre, John Reid Stonewall, 1, 2
Sayre, Marjorie; see Brinson
Sayre, Minerva Buckner (née Machen) (‘Minnie’), 1, 2, 3;
blames FSF, 1, 2;
desire for stage career, 1;
education, 1;
family background, 1;
FSF blames, 1, 2, 3, 4;
marriage, 1, 2, 3;
as mother, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
pride, 1;
rebellious nature, 1, 2;
and Scottie’s birth, 1;
ZSF lives with (1940-7), 1;
and ZSF’s art, 1, 2;
and ZSF’s breakdown, 1, 2;
on ZSF’s death, 1, 2;
ZSF’s relationship with, 1, 2;
and ZSF’s religion, 1
Sayre, Musidora Morgan, 1, 2
Sayre, Rosalind; see Smith
Sayre, William, 1
‘Sayre Election law’, 1
Sayre family, 1, 2;
blame FSF, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
campaign for ZSF’s release, 1;
at Ellerslie, 1;
and Fitzgerald wedding, 1, 2;
FSF blames, 1, 2, 3;
FSF refuses to consult, 1;
and ZSF’s death, 1, 2
Sayre Street, Montgomery, 1, 2, 3
Sayre Street School, 1
Scandals (White), 1
Scarsdale, NY, 1
schizophrenia, see mental illness
Schruns, Austria, 1
Schulberg, Budd, 1
Schwoerer, Oscar, 1
Scribner, Charles II, 1, 2
Scribner’s, publishers, 1, 2, 3, 4;
FSF borrows from, 1, 2, 3;
Hemingway joins, 1;
Hemingway with, 1;
publish This Side of Paradise, 1;
ZSF sends novel to, 1, 2, 3
Scribner’s Magazine, 1, 2, 3, 4;
rejects ZSF’s stories, 1;
Tender Is The Night serialized, 1
Seague Musical, 1
Second World War (1939-45), 1
Sedowa, Julie, 1
Seldes, Amanda, 1, 2, 3, 4
Seldes, Gilbert, 1, 2;
on Fitzgeralds, 1, 2;
friendship with, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on Gatsby, 1
Sellers, John, 1, 2;
marriage, 1, 2;
seduction of ZSF, 1, 2, 3
Serez, Mile (Scottie’s governess), 1, 2, 3
Shafer, Carolyn, 1
Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital, Baltimore; therapies, 1;
ZSF enters (1934), 1, 2, 3
Sheridan, Clare, 1
Sherman, General, 1
Sherwood, Robert, 1, 2
Shiel, Lily (Sheilah Graham), 1
Shirley, Anna (Scottie’s nanny), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sidney Lanier High School, Montgomery, 1, 2
Sitwell family, 1, 2
Skipton, Yorks, 1
slavery, 1
Slocum, Clarence, 1, 2, 3
Smart Set, The, magazine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Smith, Newman, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Smith, Rosalind Sayre, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
blames FSF, 1, 2, 3, 4;
campaigns for ZSF’s release, 1;
on Fitzgerald marriage, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
at Fitzgerald wedding, 1;
FSF’s dislike for, 1, 2;
visits ZSF in hospital, 1, 2;
wishes to adopt Scottie, 1, 2, 3;
on ZSF’s health, 1, 2;
and ZSF’s lesbianism, 1
Solid South (Campbell), 1
Southern culture, 1, 2;
black sexuality in, 1;
death in, 1, 2;
dignity, importance, 1;
mental illness in, 1, 2;
roots in, 1;
sexual shame, 1, 2;
slavery, 1;
suicide in, 1;
women in, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Spain, Hemingway in, 1
Spanish Earth, The (film), 1
Spengler, Oswald, 1
Sprague, Lt Clifton A. (later Admiral), 1
Squab Farm, The (play), 1
Squires, Mildred, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Star-Spangled Banner, The, 1
Stein, Gertrude, 1, 2, 3, 4;
and FSF, 1;
and Hemingway, 1, 2, 3;
lesbian relationship, 1, 2, 3
Steiner, Katharine Elsberry; see Elsberry
Steiner, May, 1
Stephens, Lottie, 1
Sterrett, George, 1
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
blacklisted (1947), 1;
and ZSF’s painting, 1
Stopes, Marie, 1
Strachey, John, 1, 2
Strater, Henry Mike, 1, 2
Stravinsky, Igor, 1
Suitt, R. Burke, 1
Sun (New York), 1
Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), 1, 2
Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, 1
Surratt, Mary, 1
Surrealism, 1
Swanson, H. N., 1, 2
Swope, Herbert Bayard, 1
Talmadge, Constance, 1, 2
Tana (houseboy), 1, 2
Tate, Allen, 1, 2
Taylor, Cecilia (Ceci), 1, 2, 3
Taylor, Cecilia (Ceci’s daughter), 1, 2, 3
Taylor, Laurette, 1
Tender Is The Night, see Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key, Writing
Thalberg, Irving, 1, 2, 3
This Side of Paradise, see Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key, Writing
Thomas, Amy Rupert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Thorington, Chilton, 1
Thorington, J. Winter, 1
Three Comrades (film), 1
Three Soldiers (Dos Passos), 1
Three Stories and Ten Poems (Hemingway), 1
Thurber, James, 1, 2
Tiger (Princeton paper), 1, 2
Time magazine, 1, 2
Toklas, Alice B., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Torrents of Spring, The (Hemingway), 1
Trutmann, H. W., 1, 2, 3
Tunney, Gene, 1
Turnbull, Andrew, 1, 2, 3
Turnbull, Margaret, 1, 2, 3, 4
Twain, Mark, 1
Twentieth Century Fox, 1
United Artists, 1
Universal Studios, 1
Vagabond Junior Players, Baltimore, 1
Vaill, Amanda, 1
Valescure, France, 1
Valmont Clinic, Glion nr Montreux, 1, 2, 3
Vanderbilt, Emily; Fitzgeralds and, 1, 2, 3, 4;
FSF and, 1, 2;
sexuality, 1, 2;
suicide, 1
Van Gogh, Vincent; influence, 1, 2
Vanity Fair magazine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Van Vechten, Carl, 1, 2;
on Fitzgeralds, 1, 2;
ZSF’s friendship with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Vassar College, 1, 2, 3, 4
Venice, Fitzgeralds visit (1921), 1, 2
Villa America, Antibes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Villa Fleur des Bois, Cannes, 1
Villa Marie, Valescure, 1, 2
Villa Paquita, Juan-les-Pins, 1, 2
Villa St Louis, Juan-les-Pins, 1, 2, 3
Virginia Beach, Fitzgeralds visit (1938), 1
Visitation Convent, St Paul 1, 2,
3
Wall Street crash (1930), 1, 2, 3
Warner Brothers, 1
Warren, Bill, 1
Weaver, 1nd Lt Lincoln, 2
Weinberg, Bertha (Bert Barr), 1
Well of Loneliness, The (Hall), 1
Welty, Eudora, 1
Wertham, Frederick, 1, 2
West, Rebecca, 1, 2
Westcott, Glenway, 1
Westport, Connecticut, 1, 2
Wharton, Edith, 1, 2
Whiskey Rebellion (1794), 1
White, Antonia, 1, 2
White Bear Lake Yacht Club, St Paul, 1, 2, 3
Whiteman, Paul, 1
Whitfield, Raoul, 1
Wiborg family, 1
Wilde, Dolly, 1, 2, 3, 4
Wilder, Thornton, 1, 2
Wilson, Edmund (‘Bunny’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
on Beautiful and Damned, 1, 2;
edits tributes to FSF, 1;
on Fitzgeralds, 1, 2, 3, 4;
friendship with, 1, 2, 3;
on Gatsby, 1;
on Dick Knight, 1;
literary advice, 1;
on Margaret Bishop, 1;
marriage to Margaret Canby, 1;
marriage to Mary Blair, 1, 2, 3;
marriage to Mary McCarthy, 1;
and Millay, 1, 2;
nervous breakdown, 1, 2;
in New York, 1, 2;
and Sheilah Graham, 1;
on Tender Is The Night, 1;
at Vanity Fair, 1, 2;
and women, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on ZSF, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
on ZSF’s breakdown, 1;
and ZSF’s writing, 1
Wolfe, Mrs, 1, 2
Wolfe, Thomas, 1, 2, 3;
on Tender Is The Night, 1
women: creativity within marriage, 1, 2;
domestic role as symbol of sanity, 1;
need for meaningful work, 1, 2, 3;
re-education, 1
Women’s Club, Montgomery, exhibition(1942), 1
Woodward, Peggy, 1
Woolf, Virginia, 1
Woollcott, Alexander, 1, 2, 3
Wylie, Elinor Hoyt, 1, 2
Yank at Oxford, A (film), 1
You Can’t Co Home Again (Wolfe), 1
Zelda: A Tale of the Massachusetts Colony (Howard), 1
Zelda’s Fortune (Francillon), 1
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 together
32. Scott with three-year-old Scottie in Rome 1924
33. The Fitzgeralds aboard ship leaving for France, 1928. Tension already shows on Zelda’s face and in Scott’s posture
34. Zelda believing herself ‘recovered’ after her initial hospitalizations, 1931
35. Scottie at her graduation, 1938. She did not want Zelda to attend the ceremony and ignored her when she arrived
36. Dr Irving Pine, Zelda’s last psychiatrist, in 1990. He believed Zelda had been misdiagnosed and suffered as much from medical mistreatment as from her mental illness
37. Zelda and her first grandson Tim, not long before her death in 1948
38. Zelda playing volley ball with her fellow patients during sports recreation at Highland Hospital, late 1930s. Photo taken by Mary Parker, Zelda’s art therapist
39. The fire at Highland Hospital, 11 March 1948. Zelda, locked in an upstairs room, had died in the blaze
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