Twelve Oaks plantation

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Twelve Oaks plantation is the grand antebellum estate featured in Margaret Mitchell’s novel "Gone with the Wind," known as the home of Ashley Wilkes.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional estate
fictional location
plantation
adaptedIn 1939 film Gone with the Wind
linked to: Gone with the Wind
appearsIn Gone with the Wind
appearsInWorkType novel
associatedCharacter Ashley Wilkes
Melanie Hamilton
Rhett Butler
Scarlett O’Hara
linked to: Scarlett O'Hara
associatedTheme decline of the Old South
romanticized plantation culture
contrastedWith Tara plantation
countryOfFictionalLocation United States
creator Margaret Mitchell
culturalContext Lost Cause mythology of the American South
depictedIn 1939 film Gone with the Wind
linked to: Gone with the Wind
destroyedDuring American Civil War (in the narrative)
linked to: American Civil War
fictionalArchitectureStyle Greek Revival
fictionalEconomicBase cotton agriculture
fictionalFamilyAssociated Wilkes family
fictionalLaborSystem enslaved labor
fictionalOwner Ashley Wilkes
fictionalRegion Clay County, Georgia
genreOfWorkAppearsIn historical novel
romantic drama
hasFictionalEvent barbecue and political gathering early in the story
hasFictionalFeature extensive cotton fields
formal gardens
large white-columned mansion
influencedBy real antebellum plantations in Georgia
languageOfWork English
locatedInFictionalCounty Clay County
medium literature
narrativeFunction contrasts with the more modest Tara plantation
illustrates wealth and refinement of the Wilkes family
notableFor being the home of Ashley Wilkes
portrayedAs elegant and refined estate
roleInWork setting for social gatherings
site of the barbecue where Scarlett O’Hara sees Ashley Wilkes
symbol of old Southern aristocracy
setInFictionalState Georgia
settingType rural plantation
timePeriod American Civil War era
linked to: American Civil War

Antebellum South
linked to: Antebellum period
workPublicationYear 1936

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Ashley Wilkes home Twelve Oaks plantation
India Wilkes associatedWith Twelve Oaks plantation