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    Ginevra King Pirie (November 30, 1898 – December 13, 1980) was an American socialite and heiress. As one of the self-proclaimed "Big Four" debutantes of...
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  • socially desirable young women in Chicago." The quartet consisted of Ginevra King, Edith Cummings, Courtney Letts, and Margaret Carry. The Big Four—a name...
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    16-year-old Chicago debutante Ginevra King. They began a romantic relationship spanning several years. Although Ginevra loved him, her upper-class family...
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    Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War...
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    novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in...
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    on socialite Ginevra King. Fitzgerald and King shared a passionate romance from 1915 to 1917, but their relationship stagnated after King's father warned...
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    who married Ginevra King, Fitzgerald's first love. Mitchell was a Chicagoan who loved polo. Also, like Ginevra's father Charles Garfield King whom Fitzgerald...
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    received a letter from Ginevra King informing him of her engagement to polo player William "Bill" Mitchell. Three days after Ginevra King married Bill Mitchell...
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    Ginevra is a feminine given name. It was occasionally used in medieval and Renaissance Italy in reference to Queen Guinevere, King Arthur’s queen in the...
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    debutantes circa World War I. This exclusive quartet consisted of Cummings, Ginevra King, Courtney Letts, and Margaret Carry. The four debutantes often "went...
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  • who married Ginevra King. Buchanan and Mitchell were both Chicagoans with an interest in polo. Also, like Ginevra's father Charles King whom Fitzgerald...
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    October 9, 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald lunched at the Beverly Wilshire with Ginevra King, whom he'd known when they were both young and who is held to have been...
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  • Ginevra Molly "Ginny" Weasley is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of novels by J.K. Rowling. She is introduced in the first novel, Harry...
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    unsuccessful romantic pursuit of socialite Ginevra King. A wealthy heiress from a Chicago banking family, Ginevra enjoyed a privileged upbringing and was...
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  • activist and suffragist Ginevra King (1898–1980), American socialite Jean Ledwith King (1924–2021), American activist Kelly King (born 1948), American businesswoman...
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    oil companies of the era. In 1918, William married Chicago socialite Ginevra King—the first love of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald—and inspired the character...
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  • film) People Zelda Fitzgerald (wife) Frances Scott Fitzgerald (daughter) Ginevra King (literary model) Max Gerlach (literary model) Maxwell Perkins (literary...
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    Centallo and Demonte, Desana, Ghemme, Vigone, Count of Barge, Villafranca, Ginevra, Nizza, Tenda, Romont, Asti, Alessandria, of Goceano, Novara, Tortona,...
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    Robbins Hillard Margaret Bush Clement Edith Cummings Miriam DeCosta-Willis Ginevra King Babe Paley Edith Gwynne Read Isabel Rockefeller Alice Tully "Explore...
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  • future writer F. Scott Fitzgerald for the affections of Chicago socialite Ginevra King who inspired the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. Davis...
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  • Continental Illinois National Bank. William married Chicago socialite Ginevra King—the first love of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald—and inspired the character...
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald's time at Princeton University, and his love for Ginevra King. Elements of the plot are loosely adapted from This Side of Paradise...
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    W. (2005). The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6308-6 – via...
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  • based upon Fitzgerald's first love while he was attending Princeton, Ginevra King. The Post published these in 1930 and 1931. Taps at Reveille includes...
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  • Morgan Albert Filozov as King Arthur / Merlin Yelena Finogeyeva as Queen Ginevra Aleksandr Kaidanovsky as Sir Lancelot Anastasiya Vertinskaya as Morgan...
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    and bravura "Dopo notte, atra e funesta". Medieval Scotland. Ginevra, daughter of the King, is in love with and betrothed to Prince Ariodante. She rejects...
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  • socialite, sportswoman, bookbinder, suffragist, cofounder of Onwentsia Club Ginevra King, socialite; inspiration for many female characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's...
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  • presented as a headstrong woman. Some critics have theorized she is based on Ginevra King, the celebrated Chicago debutante who was Fitzgerald's "first love"....
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    centuries. Lorenzo and Ginevra had two sons: Francesco, who was childless, and Pierfrancesco, who originated the Popolani line. Ginevra Cavalcanti was an aunt...
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  • siblings, with two exceptions being... Ginevra "Ginette" (Part 2), Robert's cousin and later Robert's wife. Ginevra is haunted by an even darker secret from...
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