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

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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.

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.