78 Facts About Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist.

Margaret Mitchell was a Southerner, a native and lifelong resident of Georgia.

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900 into a wealthy and politically prominent family.

Margaret Mitchell had two brothers, Russell Stephens Mitchell, who died in infancy in 1894, and Alexander Stephens Mitchell, born in 1896.

Margaret Mitchell was on a surveying trip in Henry County, Georgia, at the home of Mr John Lowe, about 6 miles from McDonough, Georgia, when he died in 1835 and is buried in that location.

William Margaret Mitchell, born December 8,1777, in Lisborn, Edgefield County, South Carolina, moved between 1834 and 1835, to a farm along the South River in the Flat Rock community in Georgia.

William Margaret Mitchell died February 24,1859, at the age of 81 and is buried in the family graveyard near Panola Mountain State Park.

Margaret Mitchell was severely wounded at the Battle of Sharpsburg, demoted for "inefficiency," and detailed as a nurse in Atlanta.

Russell Margaret Mitchell had thirteen children from two wives; the eldest was Eugene, who graduated from the University of Georgia Law School.

Margaret Mitchell's grandparents, married in 1863, were Annie Fitzgerald and John Stephens; he had emigrated from Ireland and became a captain in the Confederate States Army.

The Atlanta Constitution reported that May Belle Stephens and Eugene Margaret Mitchell were married at the Jackson Street mansion of the bride's parents on November 8,1892:.

At 11 o'clock Mrs Margaret Mitchell donned a pretty going-away gown of green English cloth with its jaunty velvet hat to match and bid goodbye to her friends.

Margaret Mitchell spent her early childhood on Jackson Hill, east of downtown Atlanta.

Margaret Mitchell's family lived near her maternal grandmother, Annie Stephens, in a Victorian house painted bright red with yellow trim.

However, for Margaret Mitchell, her grandmother was a great source of "eye-witness information" about the Civil War and Reconstruction in Atlanta prior to her death in 1934.

Margaret Mitchell's brother insisted she would have to be a boy named Jimmy to play with him.

Stephens Margaret Mitchell said his sister was a tomboy who would happily play with dolls occasionally, and she liked to ride her Texas plains pony.

Margaret Mitchell was raised in an era when children were "seen and not heard" and was not allowed to express her personality by running and screaming on Sunday afternoons while her family was visiting relatives.

Margaret Mitchell learned the gritty details of specific battles from these visits with aging Confederate soldiers.

Margaret Mitchell's daughter sat on a platform wearing a Votes-for-Women banner, blowing kisses to the gentlemen, while her mother gave an impassioned speech.

Margaret Mitchell was nineteen years old when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, which gave women the right to vote.

Margaret Mitchell's father was not in favor of corporal punishment in school.

Reportedly, Eugene Margaret Mitchell received a whipping on the first day he attended school and the mental impression of the thrashing lasted far longer than the physical marks.

The mayhem of the Atlanta Race Riot occurred over four days in September 1906 when Margaret Mitchell was five years old.

Eugene Margaret Mitchell went to bed early the night the rioting began, but was awakened by the sounds of gunshots.

At his daughter's suggestion, Eugene Margaret Mitchell, who did not own a gun, stood guard with a sword.

Margaret Mitchell's father was of a Protestant background, while her mother was a devout Catholic; Margaret Mitchell was raised in a Catholic household.

Margaret Mitchell's religious upbringing influenced her decision to make the O'Hara family in her novel Catholics in a Protestant-majority state.

Margaret Mitchell talked about the world those people had lived in, such a secure world, and how it had exploded beneath them.

Margaret Mitchell said she heard Civil War stories from her relatives when she was growing up:.

Margaret Mitchell's mother read Mary Johnston's novels to her before she could read.

Margaret Mitchell read the plays of William Shakespeare, and novels by Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott.

Margaret Mitchell kept both on her bookshelf even as an adult and gave them as gifts.

An imaginative and precocious writer, Margaret Mitchell began with stories about animals, then progressed to fairy tales and adventure stories.

Mary Belle Mitchell kept her daughter's stories in white enamel bread boxes and several boxes of her stories were stored in the house by the time Margaret went off to college.

Margaret Mitchell played the male characters: Nick Bottom in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Launcelot Gobbo in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, among others.

Margaret Mitchell wrote a play about snobbish college girls that she acted in as well.

Margaret Mitchell joined the Literary Club and had two stories published in the yearbook: Little Sister and Sergeant Terry.

Margaret Mitchell received encouragement from her English teacher, Mrs Paisley, who recognized her writing talent.

Margaret Mitchell set sail for France in April 1918, participated in engagements in the Lagny and Marbache sectors, then returned to Georgia in October as a training instructor.

Margaret Mitchell saw education as Margaret's weapon and "the key to survival".

Margaret Mitchell's mother chose Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts for Margaret because she considered it to be the best women's college in the United States.

Margaret Mitchell was awarded the French Croix de guerre avec palme for his acts of heroism.

Clifford Henry was the great love of Margaret Mitchell's life, according to her brother.

Margaret Mitchell had vague aspirations of a career in psychiatry, but her future was derailed by an event that killed over fifty million people worldwide, the 1918 flu pandemic.

On January 25,1919, her mother, May Belle Margaret Mitchell, succumbed to pneumonia from the "Spanish flu".

Margaret Mitchell arrived home from college a day after her mother had died.

An average student at Smith College, Margaret Mitchell did not excel in any area of academics.

Margaret Mitchell held a low estimation of her writing abilities.

Miss Margaret Mitchell was hostess at an informal buffet supper last evening at her home on Peachtree road, the occasion complimenting Miss Blanche Neel, of Macon, who is visiting Miss Dorothy Bates.

Margaret Mitchell found herself engaged to five men, but maintained that she neither lied to or misled any of them.

Margaret Mitchell was readmitted in May, then 19 years old, and spent two months at sea before resigning a second time on September 1,1920.

Margaret Mitchell suffered physical and emotional abuse, the result of Upshaw's alcoholism and violent temper.

Upshaw agreed to an uncontested divorce after John Marsh gave him a loan and Margaret Mitchell agreed not to press assault charges against him.

Margaret Mitchell received almost no encouragement from her family or "society" to pursue a career in journalism, and had no prior newspaper experience.

Margaret Mitchell wrote on a wide range of topics, from fashions to Confederate generals and King Tut.

Margaret Mitchell was quite thrilled when Valentino took her in his arms and carried her inside from the rooftop of the Georgian Terrace Hotel.

Several months after marrying John Marsh, Margaret Mitchell quit due to an ankle injury that would not heal properly and chose to become a full-time wife.

Margaret Mitchell began collecting erotica from book shops in New York City while in her twenties.

Margaret Mitchell developed an appreciation for the works of Southern writer James Branch Cabell, and his 1919 classic, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice.

Margaret Mitchell wrote a romance novella, Lost Laysen, when she was fifteen years old.

Margaret Mitchell gave Lost Laysen, which she had written in two notebooks, to a boyfriend, Henry Love Angel.

Margaret Mitchell died in 1945 and the novella remained undiscovered among some letters she had written to him until 1994.

In Lost Laysen, Margaret Mitchell explores the dynamics of three male characters and their relationship to the only female character, Courtenay Ross, a strong-willed American missionary to the South Pacific island of Laysen.

Margaret Mitchell follows Courtenay to Laysen to protect her from perceived foreign savages.

Margaret Mitchell's half-breed antagonist, Juan Mardo, lurks in the shadows of the story and has no dialogue.

The novel is thought to be lost; Margaret Mitchell destroyed some of her manuscripts herself and others were destroyed after her death.

Margaret Mitchell submitted the manuscript to Macmillan Publishers in 1935 along with her manuscript for Gone with the Wind.

In May 1926, after Margaret Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, "Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip", which she continued to write until August.

Margaret Mitchell used parts of the manuscript to prop up a wobbly couch.

Margaret Mitchell was active in Home Defense, sewed hospital gowns and put patches on trousers.

The USS Atlanta was a light cruiser used as an anti-aircraft ship of the United States Navy sponsored by Margaret Mitchell and used in the naval Battle of Midway and the Eastern Solomons.

Margaret Mitchell sponsored a second light cruiser named after the city of Atlanta, the USS Atlanta.

Margaret Mitchell was finally sunk during explosive testing off San Clemente Island on October 1,1970.

Margaret Mitchell was struck by a speeding motorist as she crossed Peachtree Street at 13th Street in Atlanta with her husband, John Marsh, while on her way to see the movie A Canterbury Tale on the evening of August 11,1949.

Margaret Mitchell was struck by Hugh Gravitt, an off-duty taxi driver who was driving his personal vehicle.

Margaret Mitchell was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in November 1949 and sentenced to 18 months in jail.

In 1978, Margaret Mitchell was inducted into the Georgia Newspaper Hall of Fame, followed by the Georgia Women of Achievement in 1994, and the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2000.