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Maybelle Mitchell. Indeed, Pyrons Gone with the Wind is a romance not between a hero and a heroine but between a woman and her mother, and the meaning of the novel is to be found, he reports, in Mitchells sense of the central, defining characteristic of womens livesthe birth experience. Aside from the reductionism of this notion, which seems almost purposefully at odds with the lessons that Maybelle Mitchell tried to teach her daughter, one can only wonder how it is to be reconciled with the life of the childless author herself