The publication, the next June, of her 1,037-page novel of the South in reconstruction days, 'Gone With the Wind,' made her an international personage. Lee Howard is a British journalist and photographer, locating 'the weird and wonderful of the Deep South' for įor more information on holidays in the USA, visit DiscoverAmerica. Margaret Mitchell was an Atlanta housewife, a former newspaper woman, when she showed a suitcase full of manuscript to a talent scout for the Macmillan Company in 1935. Open Mon 11am-2.30pm, Tue-Sat 11am-2.30pm and 5pm-8pm, Sun 11am-7pm, buffet from $15Ītlanta Movie Tours' new three-hour bus tours with costumed guides, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind, begin in April, covering several locations in town plus vouchers for the museums in Marietta and Jonesboro. Frankly, give a damn and make the journey!Ģ94 North Cherokee Road, Social Circle, +1 7,. It's now a restaurant with a buffet deal for lovers of southern food. General Sherman's March to the Sea, mentioned in Gone With The Wind, passed through in November 1864. It's well worth the 45-minute drive east of Atlanta to The Blue Willow in the small town of Social Circle. Margaret Mitchell visited many times while courting Redd Upshaw, her first husband and the inspiration for Rhett Butler. Long before it became a southern institution serving fried chicken, collard greens and "Champagne of the South" (that's sweet tea to non-locals), Blue Willow Inn, a turn-of-the-century neoclassical mansion, was the home of the Upshaw family.
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