Previous
Jonas Wilkerson
Emmie Slattery is the daughter of the Slatterys, a poor white family that live nearby to the O’Haras’. The Slatterys are disliked by everyone in the County because they are thought of as being lazy, having too many children, and are always asking their neighbors for handouts. Early in the novel, Ellen O’Hara helps Emmie give birth to Jonas Wilkerson’s illegitimate child. Emmie later infects Ellen with the typhoid fever that kills her. Emmie then marries Jonas Wilkerson, who as the head of the Freedman’s Bureau can afford to buy Emmie garish clothes. When Emmie and Jonas come to Tara to try to buy it, Scarlett calls her a “trashy wench” and a “slut.”
Get the entire Gone with the Wind LitChart as a printable PDF.
Emmie Slattery Character Timeline in Gone with the Wind
The timeline below shows where the character Emmie Slattery appears in Gone with the Wind. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 4
...him. Scarlett wonders if Jonas Wilkerson, a Yankee bachelor and the O’Haras’ plantation overseer, fathered Emmie Slattery’s baby. She’s often seen the two walking at twilight.
(full context)
...Ellen ask Gerald to dismiss Jonas Wilkerson. Scarlett deduces that it was Jonas who got Emmie Slattery pregnant. She waits for them to finish talking and then drops off the dress.
(full context)
Chapter 24
...starts to sponge down Carreen and Suellen. Mammy says it was those “low-down po’-w’ite” Slatterys.” Emmie Slattery came down with typhoid and Ellen insisted on nursing her. When the war started,...
(full context)
Chapter 25
...where Ellen is buried and then the ruins of the Slatterys’ house, where that “nasty Emmie” who killed Ellen lived.
(full context)
Chapter 32
...in a gaudy dress steps down beside him. Her clothes are fashionable—and the girl is Emmie Slattery, the “nasty slut” who killed Ellen.
(full context)
Scarlett screams at Emmie to get off the steps. Jonas says not to speak to his wife like that....
(full context)
