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BlueStocking, a feminist online journal from Oxford that aims to "investigate the intellectual and artistic achievements of women," has an essay in their current issue making a case for the artistic importance of Zelda Fitzgerald. Mostly Zelda is thought of as F. Scott's wife, and writer Lindsey Meyers says Zelda was really "far more complex: she was also a ballerina, a painter and a writer who creatively explored her subjectivity through art." I've read a few of Zelda's essays, and while I found them to be mediocre at best, I see where one could argue for her artistic merit. Where I disagree with Meyers is in the implication that the "trap posed by the feminine ideal perhaps fueled Zelda's later madness." Zelda was not crazy because her world was sexist. Zelda was actually crazy. According to biographer Marion Meade who wrote about Zelda, Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Edna Ferber in Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin, Zelda was a diagnosed schizophrenic who at one point ate her own feces. When Zelda entered a Swiss mental hospital, Meade reports, the doctors said: More »
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