Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) is an American novelist and journalist. A novel by Mitchell was published during his lifetime, the American Civil War era novel, Gone with the Wind , in which he won the National Book Award for the Finest Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. last year, a collection of girls written by Mitchell and his novella written as a teenager, Lost Laysen , has been published. The collection of articles authored by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was reissued in book form.
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Margaret Mitchell is a Southern person and a lifelong resident and native of Atlanta, Georgia. He was born in 1900 being a wealthy and politically prominent family. His father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, was a lawyer, and his mother, Mary Isabel "May Belle" (or "Maybelle") Stephens, also a lawyer, was a suffragist. He has two brothers, Russell Stephens Mitchell, who died in infancy in 1894, and Alexander Stephens Mitchell, was born in 1896.
The Mitchell family on the side of his father is a descendant of Thomas Mitchell, originally from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who settled in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1777, and served in the American Revolutionary War. His grandfather, Russell Crawford Mitchell, from Atlanta, was enlisted in the Confederate Army of the State on 24 June 1861, and served at Hood's Texas Brigade. He was badly wounded at the Battle of Sharpsburg, demoted for "inefficient", and detailed as a nurse in Atlanta. After the Civil War, he made a huge fortune supplying wood for the rapid redevelopment of Atlanta. Russell Mitchell has thirteen children of two wives; the oldest is Eugene, who graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Georgia.
Mitchell's maternal grandparents, Philip Fitzgerald, emigrated from Ireland and eventually settled on a slave farm near Jonesboro, Georgia, where he had one son and seven daughters with his wife, Elenor. Mitchell's grandparents, married in 1863, were Annie Fitzgerald and John Stephens; he also emigrated from Ireland and became a Captain in the Confederate Army. John Stephens is a prosperous real estate developer after the Civil War and one of the founders of Gate City Street Railroad (1881), a donkey-pulled Atlanta trolley system. John and Annie Stephens have twelve children together; seventh child is May Belle Stephens, who is married to Eugene Mitchell. May Belle Stephens studied at Bellevue Convent in Quebec and finished her education at the Atlanta Female Institute.
The Atlanta Constitution reports that May Belle Stephens and Eugene Mitchell married at the Jackson Street family house on November 8, 1892:
... honorary waiter, Miss Annie Stephens, as beautiful as a French pastel, in a yellow satin costume with a green velvet coat, and a vest of gold brocade... The bride is fair. a vision of youthful beauty in a beautiful white ivory and satin robes... sandals made of white satin forged with pearls... elegant dinners served. The dining room is decorated in white and green, illuminated with countless candles in a silver candlelabras... The bridal gift from his father is an elegant and many houses... At 11, Mitchell was wearing a beautiful dress. a green English cloth with a cheerful hatchet hat to match and say goodbye to his friends.
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Margaret Mitchell spent his childhood at Jackson Hill, east of Atlanta's center. Her family lived near her mother-in-law, Annie Stephens, in a bright, red-painted Victorian house. Stephens's mother had been a widow for several years before the birth of Margaret; Captain John Stephens died in 1896. After his death, he inherited property on Jackson Street where Margaret's family lived.
Grandma Annie Stephens is a character, both vulgar and a tyrant. After gaining control of his father Philip Fitzgerald's money after he died, he wasted his younger daughter, including Margaret's mother, and sent them to finish school in the north. There they learn that Irish Americans are not treated the same as other immigrants, and are embarrassing to be Irish daughters. Margaret's relationship with her grandmother would be an argument in the years to come as she entered adulthood. However, for Margaret, her grandmother was the source of "eyewitness" information about the Civil War and Reconstruction in Atlanta before her death in 1934.
Girlhood at Jackson Hill
In a traumatic accident for her mother even though she was unharmed, when Margaret's little girl was about three years old, her dress was burning on the bars. Worried it would happen again, her mother started dressing her with boys pants, and she was nicknamed "Jimmy", the name of the character in the comic, Little Jimmy . Her brother insisted that she should be a boy named Jimmy to play with her. Not having a sister to play with, Margaret said that she was a boy named Jimmy until she was fourteen.
Stephens Mitchell said that his sister was a tomboi who was happy to play with the occasional doll, and he liked to ride his Texas horses. As a little girl, Margaret goes horseback every afternoon with a veteran Confederate and a young "youth".
Margaret grew up in an era when children were "seen and not heard". He was not allowed to express his personality by running and shouting on Sunday afternoons when his family visited relatives. Margaret studied the detailed details of the specific battles of these visits with the elderly Confederate soldiers. But he did not know that the South had completely lost the war until he was 10 years old: "I heard everything in the world except that the Confederacy lost the war.When I was ten years old, it was a shock to learn that General Lee had been defeated. believe it when I first heard it and I'm angry I still find it hard to believe, so strong is the impression of childhood. "Her mother would hit her with a hairbrush or sandal as a form of discipline.
May Belle Mitchell "hissed blood threats" to her daughter to make her behave the night she took her to a women's rights meeting led by Carrie Chapman Catt. Margaret sat on the platform wearing a Votes-for-Woman banner, blowing kisses to the gentlemen, while her mother gave a fiery speech. He was nineteen when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote.
May Belle Mitchell is president of the Atlanta Woman's Suffrage League (1915), chairman of press publications for the Mother's Georgia Congress and the Association of Parent Teachers, members of the Pioneer Society, Atlanta Women's Club, and several churches and literary societies.
Margaret's father did not support physical punishment at school. During his tenure as president of the education council (1911-1912), physical punishment at public schools was abolished. Reportedly, Eugene Mitchell received a lash on the first day of her schooling and the mental impression of thrashing lasted much longer than the physical mark.
Jackson Hill is an old and prosperous part of town. At the bottom of Jackson Hill is an area of ââAfrican American homes and businesses called "Darktown". Riot Riot Riot riot happened for four days in September 1906 when Mitchell was five years old. The local newspaper alleges that some white women had been attacked by blacks, leaving a crowd of angry masses totaling 10,000 people gathered in the streets.
Eugene Mitchell went to bed early on the night of the riots started, but was awakened by gunshots. The next morning he learned 16 Negro people were killed. He wrote to his wife that the rioters were trying to kill every Negro in sight. As the unrest continued, rumors spread wildly that Negroes would burn Jackson Hill. At the suggestion of Margaret, her father, who had no pistol, was keeping watch with the sword. Although she and her family were unharmed, twenty years later Margaret recalled the terror she felt during the riots. Mitchell grew up in a Southern culture where black threats to white rape sparked mass violence, and in this world, the whites of Georgia lived in fear of "black beast rapists".
Immediately after the riots, Margaret's family decided to move out of Jackson Hill. In 1912, they moved to the east side of Peachtree Street north of Seventeenth Street in Atlanta. Passing nearest neighboring house is forest and beyond it Chattahoochee River. Mitchell's former home in Jackson Hill was destroyed at the Great Atlanta Fire in 1917.
Southern Missing with the Wind
While the "South" exists as a geographical area of ââthe United States, it is also said to exist as the "place of imagination" of the authors. A "South" image has been fixed in Mitchell's imagination when at the age of six his mother took him on a tour through a broken plantation and "sentinel Sherman", the brick and stone chimney left after William Tecumseh Sherman's "marin and torch" through Georgia. Mitchell will then remember what his mother told him:
He talks about the world where the people live, the world so safe, and how the world explodes beneath them. And he told me that my world would explode under me, someday, and God help me if I did not have the weapons to meet the new world.
From the imagination cultivated in his youth, Margaret Mitchell's defensive weapon would be his writing.
Mitchell says he heard Civil War stories from his relatives when he was growing up:
On Sunday afternoons when we called relatives of the older generation, those who had been active in the 1960s, I sat on the skinny knees of the veterans and the slippery lap of the great aunts and heard them speak.
On summer vacation, she visits her maternal aunts, Mary Ellen ("Mamie") Fitzgerald and Sarah ("Sis") Fitzgerald, who still lives in his great-grandfather's estates estate in Jonesboro. Mamie was twenty-one and Sis was thirteen when the Civil War began.
The diligent reader
A diligent reader, young Margaret reads "boy story" by G.A. Henty, Tom Swift's series, and Rover Boys series by Edward Stratemeyer. Her mother read Mary Johnston's novels before she could read. They both cried in Johnston The Long Roll (1911) and Cease Firing (1912). Among the "shell cries, a massive attack on accusations, a grim and gruesome war", Stop Flames is a novel novel involving the confrontation of a Confederate army and a Louisiana plantation ancestor with the Civil War illustrated by NC Wyeth. He also read the drama William Shakespeare, and the novels by Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott. Two of Mitchell's favorite children's books are by author Edith Nesbit: Five Children and That (1902) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904). He keeps good on his bookcase even as an adult and gives them as a gift. Another author Mitchell read as a teenager and who has a great influence on his understanding of the Civil War and Reconstruction is Thomas Dixon. The popular Trilogy dixon from the novel
Young readers
An imaginative and precocious writer, Margaret Mitchell begins with stories about animals, then develops into fairy tales and adventure stories. He makes book covers for his story, ties the tablet paper pages together and adds his own artwork. At the age of eleven he gave a name to his publishing company: "Urchin Publishing Co." Later the stories were written in a notebook. May Belle Mitchell keeps her daughter's story in a white enamel box and some boxes of her story are kept at home when Margaret goes to college.
"Margaret" is a character riding a pony at The Little Pioneers , and plays "Cowboys and Indians" at When We Were Shipwrecked .
Romantic love and honor emerged as lasting interest themes for Mitchell in The Knight and the Lady (ca. 1909), where the knight "good knight" and "bad knight" for the hands of women. In The Arrow Brave and the Deer Maiden (ca. 1913), a half-white Indian brave, Jack, had to endure the pain imposed on him to uphold his honor and win the girl. The same theme was treated with increasing art in Lost Laysen, novella Mitchell wrote as a teenager in 1916, and, with much greater sophistication, in the famous novel Mitchell's novel, Gone with the Wind , which he started in 1926.
In pre-adolescence, Mitchell also wrote stories made in unfamiliar locations, such as The Greaser (1913), a cowboy story made in Mexico. In 1913 he wrote two stories with the setting of the Civil War; one including the notation that "237 pages are in this book".
School life
While the Great War took place in Europe (1914-1918), Margaret Mitchell attended Washington Seminary in Atlanta (now Westminster School), a "fashionable" female private school with enrollment of over 300 students. He is very active in the Drama Club. Mitchell plays male characters: Nick Bottom in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Launcelot Gobbo at Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice , among others. He wrote a drama about the arrogant college girls he did as well. He also joined the Literature Club and has two stories published in the yearbook: Little Sister and Sergeant Terry . Ten-year-old Peggy is the heroine of Little Sister. He heard his sister raped and shot the rapist:
With a cold, unfeeling look at him, the cold steel rifle froze his confidence. She should not miss it now - she will not miss - and she does not miss it.
Mitchell received encouragement from his English teacher, Mrs. Paisley, who recognized his writing talent. A demanding teacher, Paisley says that he has the ability if he works hard and will not be careless in composing sentences. Sentences, he said, should be "complete, concise and coherent".
Mitchell read Thomas Dixon, Jr., and in 1916, when the silent film, The Birth of a Nation , played in Atlanta, he dramatized Dixon's The Traitor: A Story of the Fall Invisible Empire (1907). As a playwright and actress, he took on the role of Steve Hoyle. For production, he made a Ku Klux Klan costume from a white crepe dress and wore a boy's wig. (Note: Dixon rewrote the Traitors as The Black Hood (1924) and Steve Hoyle has been renamed George Wilkes.)
For many years at Washington Seminary, Mitchell's brother Stephens was studying at Harvard College (1915-1917), and he left in May 1917 to enlist in the army, about a month after the United States declared war on Germany. He sailed to France in April 1918, participated in involvement in the Lagny and Marbache sectors, then returned to Georgia in October as a training instructor. While Margaret and her mother were in New York in September 1918 preparing Margaret for college, Stephens telephoned her father that she was safe after her ship was stripped naked on the way to New York from France.
Stephens Mitchell considers lectures to be "the destruction of girls". However, May Belle Mitchell places a high value on education for women and she wants her daughter's future achievements to come from using her mind. He saw education as Margaret's weapon and the "key to survival". The classic college education he wants for his daughter is equivalent to a men's college, and this type of education is only available in the northern schools. His mother chose Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts for Margaret because he considered her to be the best female college in the United States.
After graduating from Washington Seminary in June 1918, Mitchell fell in love with a Harvard graduate, a young army lieutenant, Clifford West Henry, who was the head of the bayonet instructor at Camp Gordon from May 10 until he sailed to France on July 17. Henry is "a bit effeminate", "ineffective", and "somewhat weak in appearance" with "homosexual tendencies," according to Anne Edwards biography. Before leaving for France, he gave Mitchell an engagement ring.
On September 14, when he enrolled at Smith College, Henry was seriously injured in the French action and died on 17 October. When Henry waited in the moat of Verdun, shortly before his injury, he composed a poem on a torn leaf from his field. notebook, found later among the effects. The last verse of Lieutenant Clifford W. Henry's poem follows:
- If "out of luck" in duty call
- In a glorious action I must fall
- By Allah's order,
- May they be my dearest and best
- I know I've got acid test
- Should I "go to the West."
Henry repeatedly advanced in front of his ordered platoon, drawing machine-gun fire so that the German nest could be found and destroyed by his men. Despite being injured in the leg in this effort, his death was the result of bullet wounds from an airborne bomb dropped by a German plane. He was awarded the French Croix de guerre avec palme for his heroic acts. From the President of the United States, Commander of the United States Armed Forces, he served with Distinguished Service Cross and Oak Leaf Cluster as a substitute for the second Distinguished Service Cross.
Clifford Henry is a big love in Margaret Mitchell's life, according to her sister. In a letter to a friend (A. Edee, March 26, 1920), Mitchell writes of Clifford that he has "a memory of love in which there is no trace of physical passion".
Mitchell had a vague career aspiration in psychiatry, but his future was derailed by events that killed more than fifty million people worldwide, the 1918 flu pandemic. On 25 January 1919, his mother, May Belle Mitchell, succumbed to pneumonia due to " Spanish flu ". Mitchell arrived home from campus a day after his mother died. Knowing his death was near, May Belle Mitchell wrote a short letter to her daughter and advised her:
Give yourself with overflowing hands and hearts, but give them the excess after you have lived your own life.
An average student at Smith College, Mitchell does not excel in academics. He has a low estimated writing ability. Although his English professor praised his work, he felt it was inappropriate. After finishing his first year at Smith, Mitchell returned to Atlanta to take over the household for his father and never returned to college. In October 1919, when he regained his strength after undergoing an appendectomy, he told a friend who left his lecture and his dream of a "journalistic career" to stay and take his mother's place in society means "to surrender all valuable things counted for - no there is! "
Wedding
Margaret began to use the name "Peggy" in Washington Seminary, and a brief "Peg" form at Smith College when she found an icon for herself in a mythological winged horse, "Pegasus", which inspired the poets. Peggy made his debut in Atlanta in the winter of 1920. In the "gin and jazz style" of the time, he flapped in the 1920s. At the Atlanta debutant 1921, he performed an Apache dance. This dance included a kiss with her male partner who surprised Atlanta "high society". Apache and Tango are a dance scandal for their erotic elements, most recently popularized in the 1921 silent film, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which made its main actor, Rudolph Valentino, a sex symbol for his ability to Tango.
Mitchell is, in his own words, an "unscrupulous seducer". She finds herself engaged to five men, but maintains that she does not lie or mislead any of them. A local gossip columnist, writing under the name Polly Peachtree, described the love life of Mitchell in the 1922 column:
... he's in a short life, perhaps, having more men who really, really 'die in love' with him, a more honest-to-good applicant than almost any other girl in Atlanta.
In April 1922, Mitchell saw two men almost every day; one of which was Berrien Kinnard Upshaw (Berrien "Red" Upshaw, March 10, 1901 - January 13, 1949), whom he thought had met in 1917 at a dance party hosted by the parents of one of his friends, and the other, Upshaw's friend roommate and friend John Robert Marsh (October 6, 1895 - March 5, 1952), a copy editor from Kentucky who works for the Associated Press. Upshaw was an Atlanta boy, a few months younger than Mitchell, whose family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1916. In 1919 he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy, but resigned due to academic shortage on January 5, 1920 He was accepted back in May, then 19 years, and spent two months at sea before resigning for the second time on September 1, 1920. Unsuccessful in his educational pursuits and without a job, in 1922, Upshaw made money selling alcohol out of the mountains of Georgia.
Although his family was disapproved, Peggy and Red were married on September 2, 1922, and the best man at their wedding was John Marsh, who would be her second husband. The couple lived in Mitchell's house with his father. In December the wedding with Upshaw has broken up and he's gone. Mitchell suffered physical and emotional abuse, a result of Upshaw alcoholism and violent temperament. Upshaw agreed to an irrefutable divorce after John Marsh granted him a loan and Mitchell agreed not to press charges against him. Upshaw and Mitchell divorced on October 16, 1924.
On July 4, 1925, 24-year-old Margaret Mitchell and 29-year-old John Marsh were married in the Unitarian-Universalist Church. The Marshes make their home at Crescent Apartments in Atlanta, taking up residential from Apt. 1, which they named "Dump" (now House and Museum of Margaret Mitchell).
Reporter for Atlanta Journal
While still legally married to Upshaw and in need of income for himself, Mitchell got a job writing article for The Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine. He barely received encouragement from his family or "community" to pursue a career in journalism, and had no previous newspaper experience. Medora Field Perkerson, who hired Mitchell said:
There was some skepticism in the Atlanta Journal Magazine staff when Peggy came to work as a reporter. The debutants sleep late on those days and do not go to work.
The first story, Atlanta Girl Sees Italian Revolution , by Margaret Mitchell Upshaw, appeared on December 31, 1922. She writes on various topics, from fashion to Confederate generals and King Tut. In an article that appeared on July 1, 1923, Valentino declared him not Sheik, he interviewed celebrity actor Rudolph Valentino, referring to him as "Sheik" from his film role. Disappointed with his performance rather than his "main charm", "low, hoarse voice with a soft swollen accent", he describes his face as "dark-skinned":
His face was dark-skinned, so brown that his white teeth shone in contrast to his skin; his eyes - tired, bored, but polite.
Mitchell was quite happy when Valentino hugged him and brought him inside from the roof of the Georgian Terrace Hotel.
Many of his stories are clearly descriptive. In an article titled, Bridesmaid of Eighty-Seven Recalls of Mittie Roosevelt's Wedding, she writes of a large white-tiered house where the last living bridesmaid lived at the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt's mother:
The high white columns glanced at the dark green cedar leaves, the wide porch which surrounded the house, the magnificent silence caused by a centuries-old oak evoked the memories of Thomas Nelson Page's On Virginia. The atmosphere of dignity, ease, and courtesy that is the soul of the Southern Archipelago breathing from this old house...
In another article, Georgia Empress and Women Soldiers , he wrote a short sketch of four famous Georgian women. One of them was the first woman serving in the United States Senate, Rebecca Latimer Felton, a prisoner with a white supremacy view. The other women are: Nancy Hart, Lucy Mathilda Kenny (also known as Private Bill Thompson of the United Confederate Army) and Mary Musgrove. The article produced letters and controversies from its readers. Mitchell received criticism for portraying "a strong woman who is inconsistent with accepted female standards."
Mitchell's journalism career, which began in 1922, ended less than four years later; his last article appeared on May 9, 1926. Several months after marrying John Marsh, Mitchell stopped with an ankle injury that would not heal well and chose to become a full-time wife. During the time Mitchell worked for the Atlanta Journal, he wrote 129 feature articles, 85 news, and several book reviews.
Interests in erotica
Mitchell began collecting erotica from a bookstore in New York City in his twenties. He and his friends were flamboyant in 1925. The newly married Marshes and their social group were attracted to "all forms of sexual expression". Mitchell discusses his interest in the "dirty" bookstore and the explicit sexual prose in a letter to a friend, Harvey Smith. Smith noted his favorite readings were Fanny Hill , The Harum Garden and Aphrodite .
Mitchell developed an award for the works of the writers of South James Branch Cabell, and his 1919 classic, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice. He read books on sexology, and paid particular attention to the case study of Havelock Ellis, a British physician who studied human sexuality. During this period where Mitchell was reading pornography and sexology, he also wrote Gone with the Wind .
Novelis
Initial work
Forget Laysen
Mitchell wrote the romance novel, Lost Laysen, when he was fifteen (1916). He gave Lost Laysen, which he wrote in two notebooks, to a girlfriend, Henry Love Angel. He died in 1945 and his novel remains undiscovered among several letters he wrote to him until 1994. The novel was published in 1996, eighty years after it was written, and became the Best Seller of the New York Times.
In Lost Laysen, Mitchell explores the dynamics of three male characters and their relationship with the only female character, Courtenay Ross, a strong-willed American missioner to the island of Laysen in the South Pacific. The narrator of the story is Billy Duncan, "a harsh warrior, a tough warrior," who is often involved in a fight that makes him almost die. Courtenay quickly observed Duncan's muscular body as he worked uniformly on a ship called Caliban. Courtenay's applicant is Douglas Steele, an athletic man who seems to believe Courtenay is helpless without him. He follows Courtenay to Laysen to protect him from foreign strangers. The third male character is a rich, powerful but evil Juan Mardo. He glanced at Courtenay and made rude remarks about his sexual nature, in Japanese. Mardo provoked Duncan and Steele, and each felt he had to defend Courtenay's honor. In the end Courtenay defended his own honor instead of giving in to shame.
Mitchell's half-generation antagonist, Juan Mardo, lurks in the shadows of the story and has no dialogue. Readers learn about Mardo's evil intentions through Duncan:
They say that Juan Mardo is watching you - and intends to ask you - any way he can get you!
The desire of Mardo is similar to Rhett Butler's desire in his persistent pursuit of Scarlett O'Hara in the epic novel Mitchell, Gone with the Wind . Rhett told Scarlett:
I always intend to have you, in one way or another.
"Another way" is rape. In Losten Laysen , male teasers are replaced with male rapists.
The Big Four
In Mitchell's teen years, he was known to have written a 400-page novel about girls at boarding school, The Big Four. This novel is considered missing; Mitchell destroyed some of his own manuscripts and the others were destroyed after his death.
Ropa Carmagin
In the 1920s Mitchell completed the novel, 'Ropa Carmagin , about a southern white girl who loves a biracial man. Mitchell handed the manuscript to Macmillan Publishers in 1935 along with his manuscript for Gone with the Wind . The novel was rejected; Macmillan thought the story was too short for the book's shape.
Final assignment
Writing Gone with the Wind
In May 1926, after Mitchell left his job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home with an ankle injury, he wrote a community column for Sunday's "Magazine", "Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip" which he continues to write until August. Meanwhile, her husband is getting tired of bringing books from library to house to keep her mind busy while she limps around the house; he firmly suggested that he write his own book instead:
For God's sake, Peggy, can not you write a book instead of reading thousands of them?
To help him in his literary effort, John Marsh took home a Remington Portable typewriter. 3 (c 1928). For the next three years Mitchell worked exclusively for the Civil War novel whose hero was named Pansy O'Hara (before Pansy's publication was changed to Scarlett). He uses parts of the manuscript to prop up a shaky couch.
World War II
During World War II, Margaret Mitchell was a volunteer for the American Red Cross and she raised money for war effort by selling war bonds. He is active in Home Defense, sewing hospital gowns and patching trousers. His personal attention, however, was devoted to writing letters to uniformed men - soldiers, sailors and marines, sending them humor, encouragement, and sympathy.
USS Atlanta ââCLI 51 (CL-51) is a US Navy anti-aircraft ship sponsored by Margaret Mitchell and used in the Battle of the Mediterranean and Eastern Solomons. The ship was beaten and drowned in a night surface action on 13 November 1942 during the Guadalcanal Sea Battle.
Mitchell sponsors a second cruise ship named after the city of Atlanta, USS Atlanta ââem> (CL-104). On February 6, 1944, he was baptized Atlanta âââ â¬
Death
Margaret Mitchell was struck by a speeding car as she crossed Peachtree Street on 13th Street in Atlanta with her husband, John Marsh, while on a trip to watch A Canterbury Tale on the night of August 11, 1949. She died at age 48 at Grady Hospital five days later on August 16, 1949 without being fully conscious again.
The driver, Hugh Gravitt, was the taxi driver who was driving his personal vehicle when he crashed into Mitchell. After the accident, Gravitt was arrested for drunk driving and released on a $ 5,450 bond until Mitchell's death.
Gravitt initially filled with drunk drivers, speeding, and driving on the wrong side of the road. He was convicted of accidental murder in November 1949 and sentenced to 18 months in prison. He served almost 11 months. Gravitt died in 1994 at the age of 73.
Funeral
A private funeral ceremony was held at the Atlanta funeral home for Margaret Mitchell with Dean Raimundo de Ovis of the Episcopal Cathedral in Saint Philip (Atlanta), Atlanta, who headed. Mitchell is buried in Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta), Georgia. When her husband, John died in 1952, he was buried beside his wife, Margaret.
Legacy
Mitchell was sworn in to Georgia Women of Achievement in 1994 and entered the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2000.
Work
or Four (Written at age 18 but then destroy the script after being denied)
or Ropa Carmagin (Written at the age of 20 and submitted the novel together with the text Gone With The Wind but denied)
o Gone with the Wind (novel) (1936)
o Lost Laysen (1996)
o Sebelum Scarlett (2010)
o Margaret Mitchell: Reporter (2010)
Referensi
Bacaan lebih lanjut
- Bonner, Peter. Lost In Yesterday: Memperingati HUT ke-70 Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone With The Wind' . Marietta, Georgia: First Works Publishing Co., Inc., 2006. ISBNÃâ 978-0-9716158-9-2.
- Brown, Ellen F. dan John Wiley. Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey dari Atlanta ke Hollywood . Lanham, Maryland: Taylor Trade, 2011. ISBNÃâ 978-1-58979-567-9.
- Edwards, Anne. Jalan menuju Tara: Kehidupan Margaret Mitchell . New Haven: Tichnor and Fields, 1983. ISBNÃâ 0-89919-169-X
- Farr, Finis. Margaret Mitchell dari Atlanta: Penulis Gone With the Wind . New York: William Morrow, 1965. ISBNÃâ 978-0-380-00810-0
- Mitchell, Margaret, Allen Barnett Edee, dan Jane Bonner Peacock. A Dynamo Going to Waste: Surat untuk Allen Edee, 1919-1921 . Atlanta, Georgia: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd, 1985. ISBNÃâ 978-0-931948-70-1
- Mitchell, Margaret, dan Patrick Allen. Margaret Mitchell: Reporter . Athens, Georgia: Hill Street Press, 2000. ISBNÃâ 978-1-57003-937-9
- Mitchell, Margaret, dan Jane Eskridge. Sebelum Scarlett: Tulisan Anak Perempuan Margaret Mitchell . Athens, Georgia: Hill Street Press, 2000. ISBNÃâ 978-1-892514-62-2
- Pyron, Darden Asbury. Putri Selatan: Kehidupan Margaret Mitchell . New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBNÃâ 978-0-19-505276-3
- Walker, Marianne. Margaret Mitchell & amp; John Marsh: Kisah Cinta di Balik Gone With the Wind . Atlanta: Peachtree, 1993. ISBNÃâ 978-1-56145-231-6
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- Margaret Mitchell masuk di New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Margaret Mitchell: Film American Rebel - American Masters
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