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Before Zelda, there was Ginevra. Princeton NJ -- The University Library has acquired a rich collection of documents that reveal previously unknown details about American author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his first love, Ginevra King. King was a beautiful and wealthy debutante from Lake Forest, Ill., with whom Fitzgerald had a romantic relationship ...
Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King. By Megan McKinney. “It amazed him—he had never been in such a beautiful house before. But what gave it an air of breathless intensity was that Daisy lived there…” so went the beginning of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s description of Charles Garfield King’s Lake Forest country house in The Great Gatsby.
Between January 1915 and July 1917, Ginevra King and F. Scott. exchanged more than 130 letters, as many as three or four a week during height of their relationship - but they saw each other fewer than ten times. the spring of 1917, their largely imaginative relationship was over, a casualty other attractions.
A Lake Forest, Illinois, socialite, Ginevra King was popular, pretty, and rich. 9 Fitzgerald idealized her and conducted an ardent courtship mostly through letters. During the time of an unsatisfactory visit with Ginevra in Lake Forest near the end of their relationship, Fitzgerald overheard this comment that he recorded in his Ledger : “Poor boys shouldn’t think of marrying rich girls ...
Ginevra King Pirie (November 30, 1898 – December 13, 1980) was an American socialite and heiress. As one of Chicago's "Big Four" debutantes during World War I, she inspired many characters in the novels and stories of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; in particular, the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby.King and Fitzgerald shared a passionate romance from 1915 to 1917, but their ...
24 de ene. de 2005 · Ginevra King was a rich, ravishing 16-year-old when F. Scott Fitzgerald fell in love with her in 1915. She was young enough to have lost her last two baby teeth only a few days before they met.
7 de may. de 2013 · As in Ginevra King, the Chicago-bred lost love of Fitzgerald’s life and the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan, the lost love of Jay Gatsby’s. She was partly who Fitzgerald had in mind when he ...
