Twelve Oaks
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In Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, Twelve Oaks is the plantation home of the Wilkes family in Clayton County, Georgia named for the twelve great oak trees that surround the family m
Picture of the Atlantic Journal article of the home representing The Twelve Oaks that Margaret Mitchell found
Ashley Wilkes
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George Ashley Wilkes is a fictional character in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and the 1939 film of the same name. The character also appears in the 1991 book Scarlett, a sequel to
Twelve Oaks
…When the novel begins, Gerald O'Hara is returning from Twelve Oaks (having purchased a slave to be wife to his devoted valet Pork) with the news that Ashley Wilkes, with whom 16-year-old Scarlett O'Hara is convinced she is in love, has just formally become engaged to his second cousin, Melanie Hamilton of Atlanta…
Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes in the Gone With the Wind film trailer
Ashley and Melanie
Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes