Margaret Mitchell

M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo (Universidad a Distancia)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Born 8 Nov 1900
Died 16 Aug 1949
Activity 1920-1949

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Born in United States
Active in United States

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Born in 1900 in Atlanta, Georgia, Margaret Mitchell spent her childhood listening to stories about the Civil War. In her own words, “I heard everything except that the Confederates lost the war. When I was ten years old, it was a violent shock to hear that General Lee had been licked” (quoted in Storace, 1991: 25). Though this anecdote is, with all probability, false, it testifies to the centrality that the Civil War had in her life from a very early age. The daughter of a lawyer and amateur Civil War historian (he was president of the Atlanta Historical Society) and a suffragette, Margaret Mitchell was especially proud of her being a 100% Atlantan:

I was born in Atlanta and have lived here all my life. My parents were born in Atlanta. My grandparents had cotton plantations in the

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Citation: Gomez-Galisteo, M. Carmen. "Margaret Mitchell". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 May 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4925, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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