Melanie Hamilton Wilkes is a fictional character first appearing in a novel whose story is set during the American Civil War.
Melanie Hamilton Wilkes is a fictional character first appearing in the novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. 
Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. 
 The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. 
