She branched out to writing, directing, and starring in plays, coercing the neighborhood children to take part.įrom 1914 to 1918 Mitchell attended the Washington Seminary, a prestigious Atlanta finishing school, where she was a founding member and officer of the drama club. When the family moved to Peachtree Street, the young Mitchell attended the Tenth Street School and later Woodberry School, a private school. A few of the hundreds of tales that she wrote have survived, including two Civil War tales.
As she grew older she switched to copybooks, which her mother stored in inexpensive enamel bread boxes. Later she made her own books with cardboard covers and filled them with adventure stories using her friends, relatives, and herself as characters. Mitchell began making up stories before she could write, dictating them to her mother. Margaret Mitchell Courtesy of Atlanta History Center. They had a son, Stephens, followed four years later by a daughter, Margaret Munnerlyn. Eugene was a noted Atlanta attorney, and May Belle was a staunch supporter of woman suffrage. May Belle married Eugene Muse Mitchell on November 8, 1892.
The Stephenses had twelve children Mary Isobel (May Belle), Mitchell’s mother, was the seventh. Stephens amassed large real-estate properties and helped found a trolley-car system in the city. Annie Fitzgerald, Mitchell’s grandmother, married John Stephens, who had emigrated from Ireland and settled in Atlanta. (This portion of the county now lies in Clayton County.) The Fitzgeralds had seven daughters.
Her great-grandfather Phillip Fitzgerald came to America from Ireland and eventually settled on a plantation near Jonesboro in Fayette County. Mitchell’s mother’s family was Irish Catholic. Twice married, he had twelve children, the oldest of whom was Mitchell’s father, Eugene. Her grandfather Russell Mitchell fought in the Civil War and suffered two bullet wounds to the head during the fighting at Antietam. Mitchell was thus a fourth-generation Atlantan. Her great-grandfather Isaac Green Mitchell was a circuit-riding Methodist minister who settled in Marthasville, which later was named Atlanta. Her great-great-great-grandfather Thomas Mitchell fought in the American Revolution (1775-83), and his son William Mitchell took part in the War of 1812. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was born on November 8, 1900, in Atlanta. Margaret Mitchell Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
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