An unsuccessful marriage to Berrien Kinnard Upshaw in 1922 ended in divorce, and in 1925 she married John Robert Marsh, who had been best man at her first wedding. Marsh was employed by the Georgia Power Company, eventually becoming its director of advertising. Their marriage was totally happy, even though they shocked Atlanta society in the 1920s by having two cards on the door of their apartment: Mr. John R. Marsh and Miss Margaret M. Mitchell. A year after their marriage, she was forced to resign her position with the Atlanta Journal as a result of an ankle injury. With the encouragement of her husband, she began to write a novel.
For ten years she worked on that novel, though most of it was completed by 1929. Writing the last chapter first, she wrote sections out of sequence, as she desired. These various sections, some typed in completed form and others in messy manuscript, piled up around the apartment. Though friends knew that Mitchell was writing something, she said little about it. Then in the spring of 1935 Harold S. Latham, editor for Macmillan, began a tour of the United States in search of publishable manuscripts. His first stop was Atlanta, where he was told of Mitchell's manuscript.
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