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Before Scarlett: Girlhood Writings of Margaret Mitchell
On a sultry summer morning, Jane Eskridge and Wailes Thomas, a relative of Margaret Mitchell's, are knee-deep in over sixty years worth of accumulated detritus in the Atlanta home Thomas had inherited from his mother; and they made a discovery: 200 pages of short stories, fairy tales, journal entries, essays, and one-act plays by Margaret Mitchell, penned from ages eight t...more
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published
May 1st 2000
by Hill Street Press
(first published 2000)
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This has become one of my eternal beach books, because MY beach was actually one of MM's summer haunts as a teenager. I'm a distracted beach reader so these letters, journal entries, essays and stories make perfect light reading to snack on every summer. Just a lot of fun
Many of the stories and journal entries are incomplete, so just when I was getting interested the story would end abruptly. It was really interesting to see how she evolved as a writer. I subsequently reread
Gone with the Wind
and she's definitely refined her writing style!
I love Gone With the Wind, so this book was a great choice for me. Liked it a lot, except it was excerpts from her writings so some were incomplete, frustrating because they are great stories. A must read for Gone With the Wind fans.
My mom wrote this book, but it's actually interesting! Her hubbie (my stepdad)'s family was friends with Margaret Mitchell and these are the only early writings to survive b/c she burned everything else...
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, popularly known as Margaret Mitchell, was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel, Gone with the Wind, published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 28 million copies. A...more
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, popularly known as Margaret Mitchell, was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel, Gone with the Wind, published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 28 million copies. A...more
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