Margaret Mitchell was a first-time writer when in 1936 she submitted a manuscript of Civil War stories told to her by her grandfather.
The title of the manuscript was “Tomorrow Is Another Day”, featuring a Southern belle character named Pansy O’Hara.
The publisher convinced her to change the book’s name to Gone With The Wind.
The title of the book was taken from a line from a nineteenth-century poem by Ernest Dowson, and, after a bitter argument, “Pansy” was changed to “Scarlett.”
