28 Facts About Ginevra King

Ginevra King Pirie was an American socialite and heiress.

Ginevra King separated from Mitchell in 1937 after an unhappy marriage.

The reunion proved a disaster due to Fitzgerald's alcoholism, and a disappointed Ginevra King returned to Chicago.

Ginevra King died in 1980 at the age of 82 at her estate in Charleston, South Carolina.

Ginevra King deluged Ginevra with correspondence which pleased her as she measured her popularity "by which boys wrote to her and how many letters she received".

Against his wishes, Ginevra King read Fitzgerald's intimate letters aloud to her Westover classmates and rival suitors for their amusement.

At one point, Ginevra King asked for a photograph of him as she coyly professed to recall only that he had "yellow hair and big blue eyes".

Ginevra King began having erotic dreams about Scott and "slept with his letters" in the hope "that dreams about him would come in the night".

Fitzgerald visited Westover several times, and Ginevra King professed in her diary to be "madly in love with him".

Ginevra King read the story aloud to a rival suitor who generously praised Fitzgerald's writing as excellent.

On May 22,1916, Westover School expelled Ginevra King for flirting with a crowd of young male admirers from her dormitory window.

Mary Robbins Hillard, the stern headmistress of Westover school, declared Ginevra King to be a "bold, bad hussy" and an "adventuress", a derogatory term referring to a woman who ensnares wealthy men in order to increase her social position.

Ginevra King was all smiles, and agreed heartily when Father said he thought the best thing to do would be to take me home, and she was sweet as anything to me when I said "goodbye" to her.

Ginevra King later remarked to his daughter Scottie on the fated quality of the incident: "It was in the cards that Ginevra King should get fired from Westover".

Now in competition with Bill Mitchell, Fitzgerald's reception at the villa by Ginevra King's parents proved less hospitable.

Stockbroker Charles Garfield Ginevra King likely became irritated by Fitzgerald's pursuit of his daughter.

Ginevra King allegedly interrogated the 19-year-old Fitzgerald regarding his financial prospects.

Ginevra King later admitted that she had begun secretly dating a Yale student in New York by this time, and this complicated her rendezvous with Fitzgerald who was unaware of the other young man awaiting her attentions:.

West, Ginevra King scrutinized Fitzgerald "against the backdrop of Lake Forest by that time, as opposed to seeing him at her school," and she realized he "didn't fit in" with the elite social milieu of the wealthy upper class.

Ginevra King married Bill Mitchell at St Chrysostom's Episcopal Church in Chicago, Illinois, on September 4,1918.

Ginevra King hovered over Pirie until an ambulance arrived, clambered into the ambulance after him, and stayed with the retail magnate for the remainder of her life.

One year later, in October 1938, Ginevra King rendezvoused with a physically ailing Fitzgerald for the last time at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Hollywood.

Three years later, in September 1945, Ginevra's father Charles Garfield King died at Passavant Hospital in Chicago at the age of 77.

Ginevra King died in 1980 at the age of 82 at her family's estate in Charleston, South Carolina.

Ginevra King was buried at Lake Forest Cemetery in Illinois.

Ginevra King told me out of a clear sky that he was poor as a church-mouse.

Ginevra King exerted a tremendous influence on Fitzgerald's writing, far more so than his wife Zelda Sayre.

Ginevra King appears in West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan, a fictionalized account of Fitzgerald's final years.