- Suffered from Schizophrenia.
- Practised dancing for eight hours each day.
- Despite her late start, she was generally viewed as a talented dancer and was even invited to join the Ballet school of the San Carlo Opera Ballet Company in Naples but she declined.
- Portrayed by Christina Ricci in Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015).
- Stepgrandmother of Paul Martin Smith.
- Mother, with F. Scott Fitzgerald, of daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith.
- The title of the Pet Shop Boys song "Being Boring" (and some of the lyrics) derive from a quotation by Fitzgerald ("she refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring"). She is mentioned in the song, though not by name: "someone's wife, a famous writer In the nineteen-twenties".
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