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Shortly afterward, she defied the conventions of her class and times, by taking a job on the staff of Atlanta Journal, where she wrote a weekly column for the newspaper's Sunday edition as one of the first woman columnists at the South's largest newspaper. Mitchell set to finalizing the manuscript, changing characters' names (Scarlett was Pansy in earlier drafts), cutting and rearranging chapters and finally naming the book Gone With the Wind, a phrase from “Cynara!, a favorite Ernest Dowson poem.

Latham was scouring the South for promising new Southern writers, and Mitchell agreed to escort him around Atlanta at the request of her friend, who now worked for Latham. Mitchell finished out her freshman year at Smith and then returned to Atlanta to prepare for the upcoming debutante season, during which she met Berrien Kinnard Upshaw.

While she used to say that her "Gone with The Wind" characters were not based on real people, modern researchers have found similarities to some of the people in Margaret's own life as well as to individuals she knew. The manuscript had been written in two notebooks in 1916.

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For decades it was thought that Mitchell had only ever written one complete novel (and, in fact, periodically claims are made that she never wrote it at all due to the lack of any other published work by her).

Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell. She was ten years old before making this discovery. Lost Laysen. Mitchell always tried to answer the mountains of fan mail that she received. Another major tourist destination, a museum dedicated to Gone with the Wind, the book and film, lies a few miles north of Atlanta, in Marietta, Georgia.

She told a New York Times reviewer: “I not only do not intend to set about another book too soon, but, thank God, never intend to write another one if I keep my sanity. Here is how she later described her life’s labor: “When I look back on these last years of struggling to find time to write between deaths in the family, illness in the family and among friends which lasted months and even years, childbirths (not my own), divorces and neuroses among friends, my own ill health and four fine auto accidents ...

Mitchell stewed over this comment, went home, and found most of the old, crumbling envelopes containing her disjointed manuscript which she had stowed away. In 1923, she became a feature writer for the Atlanta Journal, and in 1925, she married John Marsh, a public relations officer for Georgia Power. ISBN 0-899-19169-X

Gwinn, Yolande.

Gone With the Wind was published on June 30, 1936. She sent a telegram to Latham: "Have changed my mind.

Mitchell was 48. Athens, Georgia: Hill Street Press; Reprint edition, 2004 ISBN 1-588-18097-2