Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee, 1919-1921 [Hardcover]

Margaret Mitchell (Author), Jane Bonner Peacock (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 150 pages
• Publisher: Peachtree Pub Ltd (March 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0931948703
• ISBN-13: 978-0931948701
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,329,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee, 1919-1921, July 26, 2010

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Jillian "Jillian" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee, 1919-1921 (Hardcover)

Step into the world of the flappers and into the home of twenty-one-year-old Margaret Mitchell as she scribbles her woes about love and writing and dreams of writing the next great novel.

She wanted to be famous in some way but viewed her own writing as poor in comparison the many of the great writers she read in her day. She couldn't have known when she wrote to college friend Allen Edee in 1921 of her mother's death, her father's expectations, and her own revolutionary spirit, that only five years later she'd be married to an editor and secretly writing 'Gone With the Wind' in an apartment she and husband John Marsh lovingly referred to as 'The Dump.'

Margaret Mitchell was one southern dynamo who most certainly didn't 'go to waste.'

Well-worth the read.

5.0 out of 5 stars Captivating Margaret Mitchell in her youth, December 22, 2008

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Rosemarie A. Stone (Vero Beach, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee, 1919-1921 (Hardcover)

This book displays Margaret Mitchell's talent for writing in her unencumbered youth while she was an impressionable young woman. These letters of Margaret provide an insight to how she was growing and developing as a young woman. It captures her energy, excitement for life, her savvy attitude towards men, and demonstrates her appreciation towards her friends. Margaret even divulges that she wanted children and enjoyed being around them. This book is a great addition to my collection. The supplier shipped it to me on a timely basis.