'Zelda always seemed like the tragic heroine of her own and other people's novels,' Cline told the Observer last week, attempting to explain the new literary interest in Zelda's life. The bitterness at the heart of the relationship was described by Zelda's biographer, Sally Cline, a decade ago. Four years his junior, Zelda was a symbol of the jazz age who would spend long periods of her life in hospital for mental illness. The history of a dark and complex marriage – marred by alcoholism, jealousy and mental health problems – has been pored over by critics. A fourth novel is also due in the autumn. (Zelda herself would perish eight years later in a hospital fire, locked in a room while awaiting electrotherapy.) Z will be followed in the next few weeks by two other imagined renderings of the relationship – Beautiful Fools by R Clifton Spargo and Call Me Zelda by Erika Robuck. as it came easily to her, it was becoming increasingly difficult for him, he couldn't help but feel competitive.Already out is Therese Anne Fowler's Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, an imagined first-person account that follows Zelda from her first meeting, aged 17, with her future husband in Montgomery, Alabama, until his death in 1940. He was proud of Zelda's abilities, but possibly because. 'He had a very interesting duality when it came to Zelda and her writing. Scott's recognition of Zelda's talent as a writer

And the Fitzgeralds were very much a pair.' His friendships with men tended to be friendships with men. They had this, some people might even call it a kind of codependency between them, and Hemingway wasn't accustomed to that kind of, you know, marital relationship. 'I think that Zelda's relationship with Scott was unusual for married women at that time. On Hemingway's jealousy of Zelda's closeness with F. And I think, you know, through deductive reasoning, the possibilities are small, and I had to make an executive decision about how to represent that.' You know, Zelda always was a little bit skeptical about his talents, but I think she was OK with him as a person, initially, until some event occurred. And then there comes this point in time when suddenly the warmth is gone. And that was what was so interesting, is Hemingway's letters to Scott during that time are actually filled with a lot of warmth in regards to Zelda.

On Zelda's relationship with Ernest Hemingway

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