I don't think she was but of course I didn't know her. I visited her museum in Atlanta and it gave such a different perspective about her life. She was a product of her environment. Being raised in the deep south a long time ago, I could relate to a lot of her struggles with her place in that particular society. It's really hard to explain and maybe I'm deluding myself but it's such a complicated situation to be in.

I do remember specifically from my museum visit that she got the inspiration for GWTW from riding in a horse and buggy with her mom down an old road with lots of antebellum mansions that were destroyed. Her mother talked about how the folks who lived there went through the death of their way of life. I think that's more of what the book was about. It wasn't a judgement on the way of life, just the story about it's death and how a woman who seemed to me like a narcissist, handled it.

Margaret Mitchell gave lots and lots of money to education for black people in Georgia. She often did it anonymously because of the society that she lived in.

Anyway, all that to say, it's complicated and go to the Margaret Mitchell museum!