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Alexander's Bridge

… Image Alexander's Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s first novel about an ambitious … the two women and the lives they represent, in Alexander’s Bridge , Bartley grapples with intense indecision and guilt. …
Posted: 07/15/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials … works of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. Our museum and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown … “Poliomyelitis” “Not a Bit Chaste” “Book 1-6 typescript and contact sheets The World of Willa Cather reviews 1985 slide …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View

… her safe haven in the heart of Greenwich Village for the next fourteen years, until it was demolished for subway …
Posted: 01/02/2026
Last Updated: 01/21/2026

Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short … her family moved to rural Webster County, Nebraska, and later to the town of Red Cloud, where she lived until … personal and cultural environments. While six of Cather’s novels were inspired by her Nebraska experiences, her …
Posted: 05/04/2023
Last Updated: 07/12/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … and commentators have increasingly identified Cather as among the most significant canonical American writers, one … recent volumes are Janis P. Stout’s Cather Among the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… home of the bride’s mother, Rachel Boak, in Virginia. 1873  — Charles Cather’s brother George and his wife Frances A. … Register of Historic Places and open year-round for guided tours. Winter 1883 to 1884  — Willa Cather attends a … Cather’s brother James Cather is born. Silas Garber begins building the Farmers and Merchants Bank in downtown Red …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Book Club Resources

… We would also love to welcome your book club to Cather’s hometown! Take a tour of the town that raised Cather and peek into historical … influenced the prolific writer. Sites include Cather’s childhood home, the inspiration for the opening scene of …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

Bibliography

Image Bibliography The Writings of Willa Cather   Novels Alexander's Bridge  1912 O Pioneers!  1913 The Song of the Lark  1915 My Ántonia  1918 One of Ours   1922 A Lost Lady  1923 The Professor's House  1925 My Mortal Enemy  1926 Death Comes for the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 2.1  Spring 1958  Editor: Mildred R. Bennett  Officers and Board … Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … 11.1  Spring 1967 Editor: Miriam Mountford  Title: Prototypes of … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… Image Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published January 10, 2012 Fragments from Willa … (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A Lost Lady (1923), all of which explored the pioneering experience …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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