A unique opportunity for Civil War-era historians

[Eva Elisabeth]

(01-31-2019 09:27 PM)Tom Bogar Wrote:  When do you expect this to happen? My mother would love - GWTW is her favorite movie, first she ever saw (two decades after release...), and she's always found Mitchell's own "story" fascinating. (Just curious - did many families in the US own a TV set in the 1950s/60s? Here one had to go to restaurants, or visit the only neighbor in the area who had.)

Sorry, Eva. It's actress Maggie Mitchell (1836-1918), a warm personal friend of John Wilkes Booth and early-on Secessionist spitfire who quickly came to regret and put behind her the impetuous acts of her early twenties and go on to thirty more years of fame and respect on stage, and not author Margaret Mitchell.
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Faux pas...amazing, I didn't expect that she was so famous that there's enough to dig out for an entire biography!

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(01-31-2019 11:29 PM)Steve Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 08:35 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  When do you expect this to happen? My mother would love - GWTW is her favorite movie, first she ever saw (two decades after release...), and she's always found Mitchell's own "story" fascinating. (Just curious - did many families in the US own a TV set in the 1950s/60s? Here one had to go to restaurants, or visit the only neighbor in the area who had.)

Eva, a documentary about the life of Margaret Mitchell that I saw on PBS (the American public television network) several years ago might be of interest to you and your mother (if she understands English):

https://www.amazon.com/Margaret-Mitchell...d=&&sr=

To be honest, I don't care for GWTW; but Mitchell lived a very interesting life. I really enjoyed and would recommend this documentary.

Thanks, Steve.