Cathleen Calvert is a pretty County girl whom Scarlett gossips with about Rhett Butler at the Wilkes’s barbecue. After the war Cathleen’s mother, Mrs. Calvert, moves back north, and Cathleen has no other choice but to marry her family’s Yankee overseer, Hilton. After marrying Hilton, Cathleen becomes ashamed of herself, and she ultimately has to mortgage her house. Later, Scarlett finds out her house was bought by a Black family.
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Cathleen Calvert Character Timeline in Gone with the Wind
The timeline below shows where the character Cathleen Calvert appears in Gone with the Wind. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6
...she looks like without clothes. Indignant, Scarlett tries to pull her bodice higher. She asks Cathleen Calvert—a pretty girl Scarlett’s age—who Rhett Butler is. Cathleen says he came with Frank Kennedy....
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Chapter 26
...The Calverts’ house was saved because Mrs. Calvert has a Yankee accent. Grandma Fontaine says Cathleen Calvert has no pride and was embarrassed, just like a Yankee.
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Chapter 29
...Fontaine looks particularly hopeless. At the Calverts’, Cade is home, but he’s dying. Cade and Cathleen live with Mrs. Calvert and their overseer, Hilton, who’s been acting like an equal ever...
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One night, Cathleen Calvert rides up to Tara. She looks unhappy, very different from the Cathleen Scarlett used...
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Chapter 31
...rile them up with tales of white cruelty. Jonas Wilkerson, Tara’s old overseer, and Hilton, Cathleen’s husband, are head of the Bureau. They’re backed by the military and have the power...
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Chapter 39
...him. Will says that a month ago, he took Suellen to Jonesboro, where Suellen visited Cathleen Calvert. Suellen insisted everyone was wrong about Hilton and he’s actually nice and smart. She...
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Chapter 40
...neighbors file in. Scarlett is surprised to see that so many people came. Scarlett notices Cathleen Calvert, acting as if her husband hadn’t helped bring about Gerald’s death. Cathleen is greasy...
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...blown down. Grandma Fontaine says that some people don’t know how to stand up, like Cathleen Calvert, but the Fontaines and the Tarletons knew how. Scarlett adds that the Wilkeses do...
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