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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, ''Gone with the Wind'', for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936〔 "5 Honors Awarded on the Year's Books: ...", ''The New York Times'', Feb 26, 1937, page 23. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851–2007).〕 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, ''Lost Laysen'', have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for ''The Atlanta Journal'' was republished in book form. ==Family history== Margaret Mitchell was a Southerner and a lifelong resident and native of Atlanta, Georgia. She was born in 1900 into a wealthy and politically prominent family. Her father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, was an attorney, and her mother, Mary Isabel "May Belle" (or "Maybelle") Stephens, was a suffragist. She had two brothers, Russell Stephens Mitchell, who died in infancy in 1894, and Alexander Stephens Mitchell, born in 1896.〔〔 Mitchell's family on her father's side were descendants of Thomas Mitchell, originally of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who settled in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1777, and served in the American Revolutionary War. Her grandfather, Russell Crawford Mitchell, of Atlanta, enlisted in the Confederate States Army on June 24, 1861 and served in Hood's Texas Brigade. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Sharpsburg, demoted for 'inefficiency,' and detailed as a nurse in Atlanta. After the Civil War, he made a large fortune supplying lumber for the rapid rebuilding of Atlanta. Russell Mitchell had thirteen children from two wives; the eldest was Eugene, who graduated from the University of Georgia Law School.〔Candler, Allen D., and Clement A. Evans. ''Cyclopedia of Georgia''. Atlanta, GA: State Historical Association, 1906. Vol 2 of 3, p. 602-605. OCLC (3300148 )〕〔Garrett, Franklin M. ''Atlanta and Environs: a chronicle of its people and events''. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1969. Vol. 1, p. 819. ISBN 0-8203-0263-5〕〔 Mitchell's maternal great-grandfather Philip Fitzgerald emigrated from Ireland, and eventually settled on a slaveholding plantation near Jonesboro, Georgia, where he had one son and seven daughters with his wife, Elenor. Mitchell's grandparents, married in 1863, were Annie Fitzgerald and John Stephens, who had also emigrated from Ireland and was a Captain in the Confederate States Army. John Stephens was a prosperous real estate developer after the Civil War and one of the founders of the Gate City Street Railroad (1881), a mule-drawn Atlanta trolley system. John and Annie Stephens had twelve children together; the seventh child was May Belle Stephens, who married Eugene Mitchell.〔Ruppersburg, Hugh. ''The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature''. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2007. p. 326. ISBN 978-0-8203-2876-8〕〔Historical Jonesboro/Clayton County Inc. ''Jonesboro-Historical Jonesboro''. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007. p. 8. ISBN 0-7385-4355-1〕〔Reed, Wallace Putnam. ''History of Atlanta, Georgia: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers''. Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co, 1889. p. 563. OCLC (12564880 )〕 May Belle Stephens had studied at the Bellevue Convent in Quebec and completed her education at the Atlanta Female Institute.〔Johnson, Joan Marie. ''Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: feminist values and social activism 1875–1915''. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2008. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-8203-3095-2〕 The ''Atlanta Constitution'' reported that May Belle Stephens and Eugene Mitchell were married at the Jackson Street mansion of the bride's parents on November 8, 1892: ...the maid of honor, Miss Annie Stephens, was as pretty as a French pastel, in a directoire costume of yellow satin with a long coat of green velvet sleeves, and a vest of gold brocade...The bride was a fair vision of youthful loveliness in her robe of exquisite ivory white and satin...her slippers were white satin wrought with pearls...an elegant supper was served. The dining room was decked in white and green, illuminated with numberless candles in silver candlelabras...The bride's gift from her father was an elegant house and lot...At 11 o'clock Mrs. Mitchell donned a pretty going-away gown of green English cloth with its jaunty velvet hat to match and bid goodbye to her friends.〔''The Chi Phi Chakett'': Graduate Personals. January 1893, Vol. V, p. 135.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret Mitchell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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