Here she gives birth to a daughter and sets up a new home. Scarlett then goes to live with her father's relatives in Ireland, which is on the verge of its own civil war. She gets knocked up by Rhett before he leaves again. This leads to the rest of the novel, detailing Scarlett's descent in Atlanta's social life, and from there to Rhett's family home in Charleston. Scarlett, however, is determined to get him back.
Rhett shows up to see Mammy before she dies, then leaves, telling Scarlett that he'll help maintain the illusion of their marriage, but he doesn't want to see her again. She goes back to Tara for a bit, only to find Mammy dying. It opens at Melanie's funeral, where Scarlett finally comes to terms with her past infatuation with Ashley Wilkes and, in preventing Ashley from throwing himself into Melanie's grave, commits a major faux pas, further solidifying her status as a social outcast among Atlanta's elite.
Scarlett takes place soon after the ending of Gone with the Wind. Subject/Genre: Gone with the Wind characters/historical fiction She died of natural causes at her home in Richmond, Virginia. The Mitchell estate tapped Ripley to write Scarlett, the sequel to the classic Gone with the Wind, which was published amid great publicity and controversy in 1991.Īfter the publication of Scarlett, Ripley wrote two more novels: From Fields of Gold (1994) and A Love Divine (1996). She published three more historical fiction novels in the 1980s: On Leaving Charleston (1984), The Time Returns (1985), and New Orleans Legacy (1987). That year, she also married university professor John Graham, with whom she had two daughters. In 1981, she published her second novel, a work of historical fiction titled Charleston. Her first novel, Who's That Lady in the President's Bed? was published in 1972.
In 1958, she married Leonard Ripley, who she divorced in 1963. She describes her upbringing as that of a Southern belle, who, nonetheless, left the south to attend Vassar college, where she received her B.A.
Alexandra Ripley (1934-2004) was born in Charleston, South Carolina, as Alexandra Braid.
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