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Life
Mitchell’s parentage was of Ulster-Scottish extraction with a history of plantation-estate ownership not unlike that described in her famous novel Gone With the Wind (1936) - set in Clayton County and Atlanta (Georgia, USA) - which makes it peculiar that she bestows the Gaelic-Irish family name of O’Hara on her main character (Scarlett) and calls their plantation-home Tara after the seat of the Irish high-kings. [BS]
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Quotations
Gone With the Wnd (1936) - incls. remarks:
‘“The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it’s the only thing that lasts”’ (Gerald O’Hara, in Gone With The Wind. ‘“Oh, it’ll come to you in time, this love of the land. There’s no getting away from it if you’re Irish.”’ ‘With the spirit of her people who would not know defeat, even when it stared them in the face, she raised her chin’. (Mitchell, 959). |