Margaret Mitchell

Standard Name: Mitchell, Margaret

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Pat Arrowsmith
She did not learn the facts of life until she was eleven or twelve. Before that she knew that kittens came out of cats, but not how they got there. Her self-education about sexuality was...
Education Helen Dunmore
While HD was growing up she read a lot of Russian fiction and poetry.
McCrum, Robert. “The Siege is a novel for now”. The Observer.
The poems of Osip Mandelstam were her talismans.
McCrum, Robert. “The Siege is a novel for now”. The Observer.
The books that she read, she says, made me, as a person...
Family and Intimate relationships Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
She shared the Sion Road house with her younger brother Henry and her close friend Margaret Mitchell .
Castro, J. Paul de. “Laetitia Hawkins and Boswell”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
185
, pp. 373-4.
373
Friends, Associates Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
LMH 's friends included Margaret Mitchell , Frances Reynolds , Cornelia Knight , Anna Williams (from whom she received particular kindness), and Sir Joshua Reynolds .
Feminist Companion Archive.
Sarah Harriet Burney wrote of her: A more fluent...
Literary responses Angela Thirkell
AT never over-estimated her own talent. She wrote that she and her fictional alter-ego, Laura Morland, each write the same book each year with unfailing regularity, and called her own work not very good books...
Publishing Emma Tennant
The Margaret Mitchell Estate and St Martin's Press rejected ET 's commissioned and completed second sequel to Gone With the Wind, writing off the $230,000 advance which they had already paid her.
Lyall, Sarah. “Book sequel creates a new civil war”. New York Times, p. D7.
D7
Residence Edna O'Brien
EOB has called Tuamgraneyfervid, enclosed and catastrophic.
Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research, 1982–1983.
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She has written of the village women's reading as a form of escape from daily life: loose, torn-out pages of Gone With the Wind (by Margaret Mitchell
Textual Production Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
She left it in her will to Margaret Mitchell . It was never published. Literary historian J. Paul de Castro used it in 1943.
Castro, J. Paul de. “Laetitia Hawkins and Boswell”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
185
, pp. 373-4.
374
Textual Production Jan Struther
This was probably the most that had yet been paid by a film studio for a first novel. But after the film grossed $8,878,000 JS wrote, I got the worst contract of any author ever...
Textual Production Emma Tennant
On the recommendation of Lady Antonia Fraser , ET was commissioned by St Martin's Press to write the second sequel to Margaret Mitchell 's American classic, Gone With the Wind.
Lyall, Sarah. “It’s hard to keep a good sequel secret”. New York Times, p. C1, C12.
C1, C12
Lyall, Sarah. “Book sequel creates a new civil war”. New York Times, p. D7.
D7

Timeline

30 June 1936
Margaret Mitchell 's Gone With the Wind was published in the USA after extensive pre-publication boosting as a candidate for the position of Great American Novel.
From December 1938
British actress Vivien Leigh starred as Scarlett O'Hara in the film Gone With the Wind, based on the bestselling (and Pulitzer-Prize-winning) novel of the same name by Margaret Mitchell , about the end of...
2001
Alice Randall 's debut novel The Wind Done Gone, which retells Margaret Mitchell 's Gone With the Wind from a slave's perspective, was published by Houghton Mifflin .

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