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Month: May 2025

The Washingtons. The role played by the lineal descendents of George Washington in the life and work of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Among the mourners at the funeral of Scott’s grandmother in 1924 were the Forrest family, a distinguished Washington family whose ancestral home in Georgetown Cecilia had stayed at during her early years in the capital. The head of the Forrest family was well-known government attorney Randolph Keith Forrest, the nephew of Captain French, the former…

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Descendents of the Real Jay Gatsby — Alfred A. Stork aka Charles A. Stork I

Pleased to say that after a long search I’ve finally been able to trace the living descendants of Max Stork Gerlach, the man that author F. Scott Fitzgerald used as a partial basis for his most famous character, Jay Gatsby. I have found through them through following the family line of Max’s half-brother Alfred Andrew…

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Alan Bleasdale’s drama The Monocled Mutineer was broadcast on the BBC in August 1986.
This website explores the social and political backdrop to the show.