File:Ginevra King 1918 Town & Country.jpg

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Chicago socialite Ginevra King in the July 1918 issue of Town & Country magazine

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English: American socialite and heiress Ginevra King pictured on the July 1918 cover of Town & Country magazine. In January 1915, a 16-year-old King met future novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Love-struck at first sight, Fitzgerald courted King for several years. He visited her father's estate several times, and Ginevra wrote in her diary that she was "madly in love with him." However, Ginevra's upper-class family openly discouraged Fitzgerald's courtship of their daughter because of his lower-class status, and her father purportedly told him that "poor boys shouldn't think of marrying rich girls". Rejected by Ginevra's family as a suitor because of his lack of financial prospects, a suicidal Fitzgerald enlisted in the United States Army amid World War I. Ginevra King later served as the inspiration for the character of Daisy Buchanan in Fitzgerald's literary masterwork The Great Gatsby.

The original caption for this photo in Town & Country reads:

MISS GINEVRA KING. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Garfield King, of Chicago and Lake Forest. She is a Westover girl and would have been a debutante last winter, but the war took her father abroad and she decided to devote all her time to war work. She is a Junior League player and drives in the motor corps. The Kings will spend two months at Rye Beach.
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Source Town & Country Magazine — "Gatsby's Girl: The Real Daisy Buchanan"
Author
Arnold Genthe  (1869–1942)  wikidata:Q216070 s:de:Arnold Genthe
 
Arnold Genthe
Alternative names
Dr. Arnold Genthe; Arnoldus Genthe
Description American-German photographer, journalist and designer
Date of birth/death 8 January 1869 Edit this at Wikidata 9 August 1942 / 9 September 1942 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Berlin New York City
Work period 1895–1942
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San Francisco, New York City
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creator QS:P170,Q216070
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✓[OK] Public domain (verified) as this photo was officially published in July 1918 by Town & Country magazine and its copyright has expired.

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