Margaret Mitchell

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...

While HD was growing up she read a lot of Russian fiction and poetry. The poems of Osip Mandelstam were her talismans. The books that she read, she says, made me, as a person...

She shared the Sion Road house with her younger brother Henry and her close friend Margaret Mitchell .

LMH 's friends included Margaret Mitchell , Frances Reynolds , Cornelia Knight , Anna Williams (from whom she received particular kindness), and Sir Joshua Reynolds .Sarah Harriet Burney wrote of her: A more fluent...

With epigraphs from Conrad Aiken , Coleridge , and W. H. Davies , the author was clearly casting around for a poetic style. She veers between over-ripe romantic sentiment, plaintive expression of pain and loneliness...

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...

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.

EOB has called Tuamgraneyfervid, enclosed and catastrophic. 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

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.

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...

She left it in her will to Margaret Mitchell . It was never published. Literary historian J. Paul de Castro used it in 1943.