Dynamo Going to Waste by Margaret Mitchell

In each case she explores the interdependence of gender with issues of race, sexuality, region, and nation. Offering fascinating reassessments of works by white writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, and Margaret Mitchell and African-American writers including Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Harper, and Margaret Walker, Young also highlights crucial but lesser-known texts such as the memoirs of women who masqueraded as soldiers. In a study that will radically shift our understanding of Civil War literature, Elizabeth Young shows that American women writers have been profoundly influenced by the Civil War and that, in turn, their works have contributed powerfully to conceptions of the war and its aftermath.

The Margaret Mitchell Encyclopedia documents Mitchell’s work, her life, her impact on Atlanta, the city’s memorials to her, her residences, details of her death, information about her family, the establishment of the Margaret Mitchell House against great odds, and her relationships with the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Junior League.ĭownload Disarming the Nation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book reveals little-known facts about this altruistic woman. Supporting the troops during World War II, assisting African-American students financially, serving in the American Red Cross, selling stamps and bonds, and helping others-usually anonymously-consumed her. Margaret Mitchell did not publish another novel after Gone with the Wind. The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel was the basis of the 1939 film, the first movie to win more than five Academy Awards. Download The Margaret Mitchell Encyclopedia Book in PDF, Epub and KindleĪtlanta writer Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) wrote Gone with the Wind (1936), one of the best-selling novels of all time.

Dynamo Going to Waste by Margaret Mitchell