She defended herself well against critiques about anachronisms and historical inaccuracy, citing various books, letters, memoirs, etc. I feel like doing this gave me a great general sense of how much work (and I mean WORK) Margarett Mitchell put into researching and writing her book, so much so that it considerably weakened her eyesight and gave her migraines for long afterwards. So what I ended up doing was reading the introductory material, and then I spent about 5 hours going through the index and just looking at all the letters on topics that appealed to me, like ones on critiques, anachronisms, characterization, etc. This is simply because it consists entirely of one-sided correspondence from Margaret Mitchell to loads of various people-fans, critics, actors, directors, friends, on and on. First of all, as far as I'm concerned there is no way to read this book straight from the beginning to the end. This is a review of the actual Gone With the Wind Letters: 1936-1949 book, not a review of the book Gone With the Wind which is annoyingly the case with many of the reviews for this book.
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