gunhilltrain
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Who would have believed it? Worth the full quote:
Mitchell began collecting erotica from book shops in New York City while in her twenties. The newlywed Marshes and their social group were interested in "all forms of sexual expression". Mitchell discussed her interest in dirty book shops and sexually explicit prose in letters to a friend, Harvey Smith. Smith noted her favorite reads were Fanny Hill, The Perfumed Garden, and Aphrodite.
Mitchell developed an appreciation for the works of Southern writer James Branch Cabell, and his 1919 classic, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice. She read books about sexology and took particular interest in the case studies of Havelock Ellis, a British physician who studied human sexuality. During this period in which Mitchell was reading pornography and sexology, she was also writing Gone with the Wind.
Those bookstores weren't dirty; I'm sure they mopped the floors every day. So, somebody here should write something - I wouldn't call it "honoring" but rather "acknowledging" her interests. I can't do it because that Southern plantation thing doesn't appeal to me. I've got to wonder who that "friend" Harvey Smith was.
Mitchell began collecting erotica from book shops in New York City while in her twenties. The newlywed Marshes and their social group were interested in "all forms of sexual expression". Mitchell discussed her interest in dirty book shops and sexually explicit prose in letters to a friend, Harvey Smith. Smith noted her favorite reads were Fanny Hill, The Perfumed Garden, and Aphrodite.
Mitchell developed an appreciation for the works of Southern writer James Branch Cabell, and his 1919 classic, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice. She read books about sexology and took particular interest in the case studies of Havelock Ellis, a British physician who studied human sexuality. During this period in which Mitchell was reading pornography and sexology, she was also writing Gone with the Wind.
Those bookstores weren't dirty; I'm sure they mopped the floors every day. So, somebody here should write something - I wouldn't call it "honoring" but rather "acknowledging" her interests. I can't do it because that Southern plantation thing doesn't appeal to me. I've got to wonder who that "friend" Harvey Smith was.
