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      • Margaret Mitchell claimed not to have read Thackeray’s novel until after she had completed her Civil War saga and confessed her inability ever to get very far in Tolstoy’s monumental work.
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      Gone With the Wind - New Georgia Encyclopedia

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Gone_with_the_Wind_(novel)Gone with the Wind (novel) - Wikipedia

    Margaret Mitchell began writing Gone with the Wind in 1926 to pass the time while recovering from a slow-healing injury from an auto crash. In April 1935, Harold Latham of Macmillan, an editor looking for new fiction, read her manuscript and saw that it could be a best-seller.

  4. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 3059110 Fascinating Facts About Gone With the Wind | Mental Floss

    • MARGARET MITCHELL WROTE THE BOOK OUT OF BOREDOM. It was boredom that caused 25-year-old Margaret Mitchell to write 63 of the most beloved chapters in literary history.
    • ALMOST NO ONE KNEW SHE WAS WRITING A BOOK. Though Mitchell spent the next decade working on characters and plot development, almost no one knew she was writing a book.
    • MITCHELL HAD NO INTENTION OF PUBLISHING THE BOOK. Despite spending 10 years of her life working on the tome, Mitchell didn’t really have much intention of publishing it.
    • SCARLETT WAS ORIGINALLY PANSY. You know her as Scarlett now, but for years, the heroine of Gone with the Wind was named Pansy. It probably would have stayed that way had the publisher not requested a name change.

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  6. www.goodreads.com › book › showGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | Goodreads

    Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

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  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Margaret_MitchellMargaret Mitchell - Wikipedia

    Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937.

  8. www.britannica.com › topic › Gone-with-the-Wind-novelGone with the Wind | Civil War, Scarlett O’Hara, Reconstruction

    Apr 7, 2024 · Gone with the Wind, novel by Margaret Mitchell, published in 1936. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1937. Gone with the Wind is a sweeping romantic story about the American Civil War from the point of view of the Confederacy. In particular it is the story of Scarlett O’Hara, a headstrong Southern belle.

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  9. www.npr.org › 2011/06/30 › 137476187Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone With The Wind' Turns 75 : NPR

    Jun 30, 2011 · Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind in a tiny ground-floor apartment in Atlanta that she liked to call "the dump." Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, moved into the apartment on their wedding...

  10. www.georgiaencyclopedia.org › articles › artsGone With the Wind - New Georgia Encyclopedia

    Jan 20, 2004 · Atlanta native Margaret Mitchell ’s 1936 novel of the Civil War (1861-65) and Reconstruction in Georgia, Gone With the Wind, occupies an important place in any history of twentieth-century American literature.

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