A Novel Called Heritage by Margaret Mitchell Dukore

1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 348-349
Author(s):  
Janis Helbert
Keyword(s):  
Margaret Mitchell

Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell.

1984 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 502
Author(s):  
Darden Asbury Pyron ◽  
Anne Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Margaret Mitchell

A Red-Headed Woman Immaculate and Immediate from the Beauty Parlor

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ritterhouse
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Old South ◽  
Margaret Mitchell ◽  
Southern Women ◽  
Gone With The Wind ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
New Women ◽  
Poor White ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter examines Jonathan Daniels's negative reaction to visiting Atlanta and meeting Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell in June 1937. Daniels perceived Atlanta as the capital of the New South but was disappointed to see so much social distance between rich and poor, white and black, which seemed reminiscent of Old South social hierarchies. Mitchell, too, struck him as person full of contradictions. The vulgarity of her speech reminded him of the flappers or New Women of the 1920s, yet she had written a romantic epic of the Old South and seemed disappointingly conventional, rigid, and small-minded. Daniels had little insight into the gender struggles of white southern women of his and Mitchell's generation, but their ideological differences in relation to the New Deal were evident. Mitchell was very angry that Daniels included excerpts of their conversation in A Southerner Discovers the South without her permission, but the fact that he did not name her in the book resulted in very few readers recognizing her.

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