Hopefully, this collection will inspire the next Margaret Mitchell. I especially hope young adults enjoy the book, too and draw inspiration from Margaret's early frustrations vis-a-vis the ultimate success she enjoyed. 'She was just a wonderful storyteller, and this collection fleshes in parts of her life that nobody has ever had access to before.I think it will inspire many people to go back and read 'G one With the Wind', and learn more about Mitchell as a person. There were 10 apartments and they lived in Apartment 1, which looking from Crescent Avenue is the bottom left unit. Margaret Mitchell and her husband John Marsh moved in on their wedding day in 1925. 'It's really amazing, the way Margaret could write without making corrections, even at such a young age.' says Eskridge. Sheehan in 1899the year before Margaret was bornand not converted into apartments until 1919. Later, at the Washington Seminary, school for girls, Mitchell was president of the literary society, literary editor of the yearbook, and acted in several drama club productions. When it was published in 1936, Mitchell's romance of the Old South sold more copies than any other American novel in history. The budding writer made fast friends with a tight-knit group of boys and girls in her new neighbourhood and school, and many of her writings were about the exploits of her gang. Margaret Mitchell The amazing popularity of her novel Gone with the Wind, its heroine Scarlett O'Hara, and the film they inspired made ex- Atlanta Journal reporter Margaret Mitchell a twentieth-century cultural phenomenon.

When she was 12, Margaret's family moved to a Colonial Revival-style mansion situated on a fashionable stretch of Peachtree Street. The Mitchell family lived in a sprawling, two-story Victorian home with a deep, cool porch where Margaret liked to sit and read. These journal entries and fiction pieces paint a picture of a precocious, imaginative young girl growing up in early twentieth century Atlanta, a member of a family that was considered part of the city's 'old guard'.

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