Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee, 1919-1921

by Margaret Mitchell, Jane Bonner Peacock (Editor)

A collection of letters written by Mitchell to a college friend during the period, after her mother's death, that she ran her father's prominent Atlanta home.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

150 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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. An American film adaptation, released in 1939, became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood, and received a record-breaking number of Academy Awards.
-Wikipedia

Reviews

[Meghan Portillo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Compared with Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" Letters, 1936-1949, these letters are incredibly open and revealing. I was disappointed to see that nearly a year was missing but the ed. filled in what may have been covered in the letters.

[Mamie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting letters! They felt like a conversation, and I loved the colloquialisms back from the twenties southern high society. Very well written, and it was great to see into the world of Margaret Mitchell--her personality, her environment, and her personal life.

[┊ ♡ Cordelia ♡┊ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read 2x. LAST COMPLETED MAY 2015. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

In which this is MY FAVORITE BOOK EVER on Margaret Mitchell (author of Gone with the Wind), & I urge all the folks most ardently to read it for it is LETTERS BY MITCHELL in HER OWN WORDS before she was famous. SHE WAS A TEENAGER. SHE HAS THE ROBUST FEELINGS. SHE IS MOST AMUSING.

⨯ . ⁺ ✦ ⊹ ꙳ ⁺ ‧ ⨯. ⁺ ✦ ⊹ . * ꙳ ✦ ⊹

[Amira Rutherford-Moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just Sigh worthy,
The man she writes to( Allen Edee) is the true inspiration behind Rhett Butler. Really. I can't believe it. As you read his description and how he teases her and they get on....Its so plain and right there!!!!!