F. Scott Fitzgerald's Family: Parents, Relatives, Wife and Daughter
in Photographs of Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mrs Mollie McQuillan Fitzgerald.

Mollie McQuillan Fitzgerald, c. 1905 or 1909: “The most awkward and the homeliest woman I ever saw.” (Princeton University Library)

Mrs Mollie McQuillan Fitzgerald, c. 1930.

Mrs Mollie McQuillan Fitzgerald, c. 1936.

1909. Mr Edward Fitzgerald, Mrs Mollie Fitzgerald and their daughter Annabelle.

1927, "Ellerslie". Mr Edward Fitzgerald, Mrs Mollie Fitzgerald and their grand-daughter Scottie.

Annabel Fitzgerald, Scott’s sister, 1919, aged eighteen. ‘Scott advised his sister on conversation, couture and cosmetics and on how to listen to men’

Annabel Fitzgerald, Scott’s sister, c. 1905.

Annabel Fitzgerald, Scott’s sister, c. 1906.

Minnie Machen Sayre, born 1860, Zelda’s mother: an avid reader. Montgomery. "The Wild Lily of the Cumberland"

Judge Anthony Sayre, Zelda’s father, in 1880 (Aged 19). Zelda called him ‘a living fortress’

Marjorie Sayre, Zelda’s eldest sister, born 1886: a frail nervous girl

Rosalind (Tootsie) Sayre, born 1889. Zelda’s middle sister, stalwart and feisty

Clothilde (Tilde) Sayre, born 1891. Zelda’s youngest sister, the model for Joan in Save Me The Waltz

Anthony Sayre Jnr, born 1894. Zelda’s brother and rival. In Caesar’s Things heroine Janno’s brother was partly based on young Anthony

Zelda Sayre as a child

Zelda Sayre in the yard of her family’s rental home at 6 Pleasant Street, Montgomery, Alabama. Photo courtesy of the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Collection, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Zelda, age 14.

1914. Zelda as ballerina.

1914. Zelda in clown costume.

1916. Zelda at pool.

1916. Zelda at 16.

1918, February. Zelda, Montgomery: “There was the eternally kissable mouth, small, slightly sensual, and utterly disturbing.” (Princeton University Library). Studio photograph of Zelda Sayre at eighteen, during her first engagement to Scott Fitzgerald. She had graduated high school the spring before. Photo courtesy of the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Collection, Manuscripts Divison, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

1919. Zelda aged around eighteen in dance costume in her mother’s garden in Montgomery

Zelda in a dance costume while she is Montgomery’s young star ballerina. Photo courtesy of the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Collection, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

1919 Zelda in Follies costume. Courtesy of Princeton University Library

1918, Montgomery. Out of school picnic. Zelda (second from right) unsmiling, with Grace Gunter and their friends in regulation white middy blouses and black ties.

1918 Zelda in hat.

1919. Zelda in another hat. (Courtesy of Wilda Williams).

1922, summer. Zelda and Scottie in White Bear Lake

1922 Zelda in White Bear Lake

1922 Young mother Zelda with Scottie, the daughter she called “AWFULLY cute”. From Zelda Scrapbook, Courtesy of Princeton University Library

1923 Zelda Fancy Study.

1923 Zelda Fancy Study, Zelda and Scottie.

1922 Frances Scott Fitzgerald. Courtesy of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated

1928, Zelda press photo.

1929, Summer, Ellerslie. Dust jacket photograph of Zelda for Save Me the Waltz. Portait.

1929, Summer, Ellerslie. Dust jacket photograph of Zelda for Save Me the Waltz. Courtesy of Princeton University Library

1929, Summer, Ellerslie. Dust jacket photograph of Zelda for Save Me the Waltz. Second

1929, Summer, Ellerslie. Dust jacket photograph of Zelda for Save Me the Waltz. Third

Photo from Baltimore Sun newspaper, c. early 1930's.

Zelda in 1930.

Zelda in 1931.

Zelda believing herself ‘recovered’ after her initial hospitalization at Prangins clinic, September 15, 1931.

Scottie in 1931 (9 years old), Lake Como (Italy)

Frances Scott Fitzgerald ("Scottie") as a ballerina in 1932. From Zelda's Scrapbook. Photo by John Blazejewski.

A clipping from Baltimore American newspaper, c. 1933, showing Zelda Fitzgerald at work on a painting to be exhibited at The Independent Artists' Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art.

1936. Zelda in North Carolina. Courtesy of Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina

A Late shapshot of Zelda, taken near Asheville

Scottie in 1935

June 1938. Scottie at her high school graduation. She did not want Zelda to attend the ceremony and ignored her when she arrived. Courtesy of Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina

Scottie in 1939.

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

Zelda and her first grandson Tim, not long before her death in 1948

Sheilah in 1930. “So much innocence and so much predatory toughness [went] side by side behind this gentle English voice.”

Sheilah c. 1932.

Sheilah in 1938.

Sheilah in 1939.

Sheilah in 1939.

Sheilah in 1960.

Sheilah in 1960 with Scottie.