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Ginevra King Pirie (November 30, 1898 – December 13, 1980) was an American socialite and heiress. As one of Chicago's "Big Four" debutantes during World War I, she inspired many characters in the novels and stories of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; in particular, the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. A 16-year-old King met an 18-year-old Fitzgerald at a sledding party in St. Paul, Minnesota, and they shared a passionate romance from 1915 to 1917.

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  • Ginevra King Pirie (November 30, 1898 – December 13, 1980) was an American socialite and heiress. As one of Chicago's "Big Four" debutantes during World War I, she inspired many characters in the novels and stories of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; in particular, the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. A 16-year-old King met an 18-year-old Fitzgerald at a sledding party in St. Paul, Minnesota, and they shared a passionate romance from 1915 to 1917. Although King was "madly in love" with Fitzgerald, their relationship stagnated when King's family intervened. Her father Charles Garfield King purportedly warned the young writer that "poor boys shouldn't think of marrying rich girls", and he forbade any further courtship of his daughter by Fitzgerald. When their relationship ended, a heartbroken Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton University and enlisted in the United States Army amid World War I. While courting his future wife Zelda Sayre and other young women while garrisoned near Montgomery, Alabama, Fitzgerald continued to write King in the hope of rekindling their relationship. While Fitzgerald served in the army, King's father arranged her marriage to William "Bill" Mitchell, the son of his wealthy business associate John J. Mitchell. An avid polo player and sportsman, Bill Mitchell would become the director of Texaco, one of the largest and most successful oil companies of the era, and he served as the model for Thomas "Tom" Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. Despite King marrying Mitchell and Fitzgerald marrying Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald remained "so smitten by King that for years he could not think of her without tears coming to his eyes". Fitzgerald scholar Maureen Corrigan notes that Ginevra King, far more so than author's wife Zelda Sayre, became "the love who lodged like an irritant in Fitzgerald's imagination, producing the literary pearl that is Daisy Buchanan". In the mind of Fitzgerald, King became the prototype of the unobtainable, upper-class woman who embodies the elusive American dream. During her relationship with Fitzgerald, Ginevra wrote a Gatsby-like story which she sent to the young author. In her story, she is trapped in a loveless marriage with a wealthy man yet still pines for Fitzgerald. The lovers are reunited only after Fitzgerald has attained enough money to take her away from her adulterous husband. Fitzgerald kept Ginevra's story with him until his death, and scholars have noted the plot similarities between Ginevra's story and Fitzgerald's novel. King divorced Mitchell in 1937 after an unhappy marriage. Following her divorce, Fitzgerald attempted to reunite with King when she visited Hollywood in 1938. The reunion proved a disaster due to Fitzgerald's alcoholism, and a disappointed King returned to Chicago. She later married John T. Pirie Jr., a business tycoon and owner of the Chicago department retailer Carson Pirie Scott & Company. She died in 1980 at the age of 82 at her estate in Charleston, South Carolina. (en)
  • Ginevra King Pirie (30 November 1898 – 13 Desember 1980) adalah seorang sosialita berkabangsaan Amerika. Dia adalah inspirasi bagi banyak karakter dalam novel dan cerita penulis F. Scott Fitzgerald, khususnya, karakter di The Great Gatsby King dan Fitzgerald berbagi romansa yang penuh gairah dari tahun 1915 hingga 1917, tetapi hubungan mereka mandek setelah keluarga King campur tangan, dan ayahnya memperingatkan penulis muda itu bahwa "anak laki-laki miskin tidak boleh berpikir untuk menikahi gadis kaya". Setelah hubungan mereka berakhir, Fitzgerald yang patah hati dan ingin bunuh diri mendaftar di di tengah Perang Dunia I,sementara King tiba-tiba mengadakan perjodohan dengan suami pertamanya, William "Bill" Mitchell, seorang pemain polo keranjingan yang menjadi model untuk Thomas "Tom" Buchanan dalam novel yang sama.Mitchell akan menjadi direktur , salah satu perusahaan minyak terbesar dan tersukses pada masa itu. King kemudian menceraikan Mitchell setelah pernikahan yang tidak bahagia. Suami keduanya, John T. Pirie, Jr., adalah seorang taipan bisnis dan pemilik departemen Chicago bernama . (in)
  • Джиневра Кинг (Ginevra King, 1898—1980) — американская светская дама, прототип нескольких персонажей книг Фрэнсиса Скотта Фитцджеральда, в том числе Дэйзи в романе «Великий Гэтсби». (ru)
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  • Cropped passport photograph of banker William H. Mitchell circa 1918 (en)
  • F Scott Fitzgerald circa 1920 (en)
  • Ginevra King circa 1916–1918 (en)
  • Cropped passport photograph of newlywed Ginevra King circa 1918 (en)
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  • —F. Scott Fitzgerald (en)
  • —Ginevra King (en)
  • —Judy Jones (en)
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  • Chicago, Illinois, U.S. (en)
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  • A 20-year-old Ginevra King on the July 1918 cover of Town & Country magazine (en)
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  • Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. (en)
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  • Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's romance and life-long obsession with Ginevra King inspired the plot of his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. As one of the wealthiest socialites in the Midwest, King was often fêted in the press as among Chicago's most desirable debutantes. (en)
  • Passport photos of newlyweds Ginevra King and her husband Bill Mitchell circa 1918. Ginevra inspired the character of Daisy Buchanan and Bill Mitchell inspired the character of Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. (en)
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  • Ginevra King Photo circa 1916.jpg (en)
  • Newlyweds Ginevra King Mitchell and William H. Mitchell in their passport photos, 1918 - Bill Mitchell Crop.jpg (en)
  • F Scott Fitzgerald circa 1920.jpg (en)
  • Newlyweds Ginevra King Mitchell and William H. Mitchell in their passport photos, 1918 - Ginevra King Crop.jpg (en)
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  • "Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly. (en)
  • That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it.... High in the white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl.... (en)
  • "She's got an indiscreet voice," I remarked."It's full of—" I hesitated. (en)
  • "Some day—Scott—some day. Perhaps in a year—two—three—We'll have that perfect hour! I want it—and so we'll have it! It may be different then but after a while we would be brought back to the way I feel now..." (en)
  • As they walked inside, their voices jingled the words 'all these years', and Donald felt a sinking in his stomach. This derived in part from a vision of their last meeting—when she rode past him on a bicycle, cutting him dead—and in part from fear lest they have nothing to say. It was like a college reunion—but there the failure to find the past was disguised by the hurried boisterous occasion. Aghast, he realized that this might be a long and empty hour. (en)
  • "I've just had rather an unpleasant afternoon. There was a—man I cared about. He told me out of a clear sky that he was poor as a church-mouse. He'd never even hinted it before.... You see, if I'd thought of him as poor—well, I've been mad about loads of poor men, and fully intended to marry them all. But in this case, I hadn't thought of him that way and my interest in him wasn't strong enough to survive the shock." (en)
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  • Jack Mitchell (en)
  • John J. Mitchell (en)
  • J. Ogden Armour (en)
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  • The Great Gatsby (en)
  • in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Winter Dreams, December 1922 (en)
  • Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, February 1915 (en)
  • Three Hours Between Planes, July 1941 (en)
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  • Джиневра Кинг (Ginevra King, 1898—1980) — американская светская дама, прототип нескольких персонажей книг Фрэнсиса Скотта Фитцджеральда, в том числе Дэйзи в романе «Великий Гэтсби». (ru)
  • Ginevra King Pirie (November 30, 1898 – December 13, 1980) was an American socialite and heiress. As one of Chicago's "Big Four" debutantes during World War I, she inspired many characters in the novels and stories of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; in particular, the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. A 16-year-old King met an 18-year-old Fitzgerald at a sledding party in St. Paul, Minnesota, and they shared a passionate romance from 1915 to 1917. (en)
  • Ginevra King Pirie (30 November 1898 – 13 Desember 1980) adalah seorang sosialita berkabangsaan Amerika. Dia adalah inspirasi bagi banyak karakter dalam novel dan cerita penulis F. Scott Fitzgerald, khususnya, karakter di The Great Gatsby King dan Fitzgerald berbagi romansa yang penuh gairah dari tahun 1915 hingga 1917, tetapi hubungan mereka mandek setelah keluarga King campur tangan, dan ayahnya memperingatkan penulis muda itu bahwa "anak laki-laki miskin tidak boleh berpikir untuk menikahi gadis kaya". (in)
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  • Ginevra King (en)
  • Ginevra King (in)
  • Кинг, Джиневра (ru)
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