Their lives seemed to be the stuff of fiction, a seductive story of sudden success and sharp decline. They were beautiful and volatile and constantly making a scene – dancing on tables, taking a drunken swim in the Plaza fountain, playing pranks and leaving a glittering trail of feathers and champagne glasses behind them. Together, they were American literature’s first celebrity couple: Scott and Zelda, the novelist and his muse. Scott wrote about such ‘flapper’ girls, with their bobbed hair, slinky dresses and sassy attitudes, and the more he did, the more his wife came to embody the symbol. As the wife of the great novelist F Scott Fitzgerald, she became an icon of the decade, of everything extravagant and scintillating and beautiful and reckless. Overflowing with charm and wit, Zelda Fitzgerald was the perfect heroine for a story of Jazz Age decadence. She was the original It Girl, a Southern belle turned glamorous flapper turned broken-down mental patient.
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