Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind

Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind | Darden Asbury Pyron | A Barrage of Information

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	Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind Darden Asbury Pyron Hill Street Press, 2004 - 560 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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This definitive biography of the author of Gone With the Wind offers a perceptive psychological analysis of the novel and a concise study of the book's shifting critical fortunes in the contemporary South. The life of "Peggy" Mitchell, from her birth in the highest reaches of aristocratic Atlanta in 1900 to her death in 1949 in a car accident, is detailed in a manner that is sympathetic yet wholly objective. A fascinating mass of contradictions, Mitchell emerges here as alternately retiring and flirty, as a Southern belle confident enough to enter Atlanta's worst prisons and slums during her journalism career at the Atlanta Journal, and as an intensely private person who nonetheless answered every fan letter herself. The breadth of this biography is vast, ranging from the intimate-including the astonishing real-life model for Rhett Butler-to the global-exploring the intense responses to the book from people all over the world who continue to see an image of their own political struggles in Mitchell's depiction of bravery in defense of a lost cause.

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Southern Daughter

The research is well done but there are too many details repeated. I would have enjoyed it more if it were condensed at least 30 per cent.

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At 463 pages, "Southern Daughter" is definitely a well-researched and informative biography. However, the barrage of dates, facts and other figures take away from a smooth, enjoyable reading experience and makes it hard to get through the book at times. My advice is read this book only if you are extremely curious about the life of Margaret Mitchell or have to do research on the topic. Otherwise, look for a more reader-friendly biography.

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