A Tough Little Patch of History by Jennifer W. Dickey

Author:Jennifer W. Dickey [Dickey, Jennifer W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Popular Culture, Business & Economics, Industries, Hospitality; Travel & Tourism, History, Social History, United States, State & Local, South (AL; AR; FL; GA; KY; LA; MS; NC; SC; TN; VA; WV), Art, Film & Video
ISBN: 9781557286574
Google: jdtXAwAAQBAJ
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Goodreads: 20312080
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2014-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

“A Physically Dark but Intellectually Bright Place”

The small basement apartment in which Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind was described by Atlanta Journal reporter William Howland as “a physically dark but intellectually bright” place.1 Built as a single-family residence by Cornelius Sheehan, a postal inspector, the building at 806 Peachtree Street was located in the heart of one of Atlanta’s most fashionable residential districts at the time of its construction in 1898. Within ten years, Sheehan had moved out, and commercial development had moved in along the Peachtree corridor around Tenth Street. Between 1913 and 1919, the house was moved to the back of the corner lot, reoriented toward Crescent Avenue, and converted into ten apartments. Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, moved into the basement apartment, which consisted of two main rooms, a living room, and a bedroom, plus a bath and tiny kitchen, in 1925. They resided there for the next seven years, during which time Mitchell wrote the manuscript that would become her best-selling book.

Although she became famous after the debut of her book, Mitchell shunned the limelight for most of her life. She never wrote another book, but she did attempt to respond to the thousands of fan letters that she received after the book’s publication. Mitchell was so determined that she not be canonized that she left instructions for her husband, John Marsh, and her brother, Stephens Mitchell, to destroy the manuscript after her death. Both of the men carried out her request after she was struck by a car and killed in August of 1949. Marsh destroyed most of her original manuscript, and in 1952 Stephens Mitchell had demolished the house at 1149 Peachtree Street in which he and Margaret had been raised.2

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