"She loved going to jazz clubs and speakeasies during Prohibition. "She was quite the little spitfire," Arietta says. 1 was a real comedown for Mitchell - she grew up in a mansion just down the street - but the young bride was happy, full of life and spunk. "She called it 'the dump,' " says Joanna Arietta, director of historic houses for the Atlanta History Center and Margaret Mitchell House. The bedroom closet was converted to a kitchen. The place is tiny - just a parlor and a bedroom. Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, moved in on their wedding day, July 4, 1925. Lines like "I'll never be hungry again!!" were written, first, in a ground-floor apartment off Peachtree Street in Atlanta. Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind in a tiny ground-floor apartment in Atlanta that she liked to call "the dump." Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, moved into the apartment on their wedding day, July 4, 1925.
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