Margaret Mitchell House And Museum
There are a lot of historical things in the Margaret Mitchell house and museum. The Margaret Mitchell House is located on Peachtree St. in Atlanta and close to the Midtown Marta station. To enter the house, visitors have to pass the Visitor Center. When you go in the Center, you can see the biography of Mitchell in the front. It is about her childhood and shows girlhood writing such as a hand made books I Want to Be Famous in Some Way, which was written when she was 14 years old. On the left wall in the center are southern writers? pictures, a TV, and seats for watching a documentary program about her. The documentary is about the history of the building, Mitchell, and her writing skill. Beside the seats are her pictures. For example, there are pictures of her as a reporter for Atlanta Journal and went to picnic with her friends. Before the tour is started, visitors can see these things. Next, there is a tour guide in the museum. The tour takes about one and half-hours. First, the tour begins from the reverse side door in the center. The house is a 3-story-building. around the house are a courtyard, and a porch. On the porch are three rocking chairs. Beside the porch is a small entrance to the house. The tour begins on the 2nd floor. On the 2nd floor are two rooms and a hall. In the hall are stairs to the upstairs and downstairs, Mitchell's portrait, and an old desk. On the first room are her family pictures, one on each wall. In the other room are styles of the architecture around of the house when she lived at the house. Downstairs is the real entrance of the house and her room. In the front of the entrance on the handle of the stair is a carving has a shape of a lion,. There are living room, a bath in the middle, a bedroom, and a kitchen on this floor. In the living room is an old record player, some sofas around the room, an old typewriter on her desk, and some drawings on the wall. The bathroom is in a narrow hallway between the bedroom and the living room. In the bedroom are a small bed, windows in front of the bed, her and her husband's pictures, a suitcase and some clothes on the bed, a table for makeup. There is a door for kitchen in the front. The kitchen is very small, and there are old utensils. After passing the kitchen, there are two halls. In one hall are her handwritten letters in a display table. In the other hall are Martin Luther King's pictures about discrimination between black and white people, and a TV for a documentary about Mitchell's helping black people. There is the museum of Gone with the Wind across the road in front of the house. There is a imitation setting of the doorway to Tara on the front, and there are pictures about the movie, such as settings, clothing, buildings, actors, actress, and director on the wall. Also there are many posters the movie for many countries
The Biography of Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell was a women dedicated to
do charity work and to her job as a reporter and writer. Margaret Mitchell
was born in A
tlanta, in November 8,1900. Her mother was a suffragist, and
her father was a prominent lawyer and president of the Atlanta Historical
Society. Margaret grew up listening to stories about old Atlanta and the
battles that the Confederate army had fought there during the American Civil
War. When she was 12, she was a tomboy. She dressed in knickers and called
herself "Jimmy." In her youth, Margaret adopted her mother’s feminism
. In 1917, she fell in
love and became engaged to Lt. Clifford Henry, a Harvard man in training
at Camp Gordon in Atlanta. One year later, he was stationed in France, and
she started her first year of college. While at Smith, she received word
that Clifford had died. Soon after that, Margaret’s mother became ill, and
she rushed home to see her, but she arrived one day late. In September of
1922. she married Red Up show, but soon he became abusive, and she realized
that he was a bootlegger and an alcoholic, so they separated. Margaret started
her career as a reporter at the Atlanta Journal Magazine in 1922 under the
name Peggy Mitchell. Three years later, she married John Marsh, a editor
of the Georgia Power Company magazine, eventually rising to vice president
of advertising and marketing. During the year of 1926 to 1929 she wrote
the novel Gone With The Wind. It was published on June 10, 1936 and, by
October it had sold one million copies. Margaret’s book broke sales records.
Three years after the publication of her book, she sold the film rights
to the producer David O. Selznick for $50,000, and later received another
$50,000. The film premiered on December 15, 1939. It won ten Academy Awards.
During the 1940’s Margaret became a full-time volunteer and devoted more
of her time, energy and money to do charity work. On August 11, 1949, when
she was crossing Peachtree Street to go to a theater, she was hit by an
off-duty cab driver. Suffering from internal injuries, she died several
days later at Grady Hospital.
Dori's Description of Visiting the House
Alejandro's Description of Visiting the House
This web-page was created by Alejandro and Dori (Sang Bo)