"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm."

"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm."

From "Gone with the Wind", by Margaret Mitchell.

Margaret Mitchell was an American author and journalist, best known for her only novel, "Gone with the Wind," which won her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1900, her work provided vivid and enduring portrayals of the American South during and after the Civil War.

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