| |
| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Margaret Mitchell |
 | | Mitchell's publishers, Macmillan,; were convinced that they had a hit on their hands, so convinced that they invested more than $10,000 promoting the novel. |
 | | Neither critics nor readers, however, realized the immediacy the Civil War experience held for Margaret Mitchell: she had played on land where relics from Sherman's siege could be picked up by curious children, and she had traced with her own fingers the bullet scars, souvenirs of Antietam, on her Grandfather Mitchell's head. |
 | | Mitchell insists that Scarlett is her father's daughter, and Gerald O'Hara is an Irish immigrant with only the thinnest veneer of gentility. |
| www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200847 (1139 words) |
|