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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. …
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Finding Aids

… 2015 Copyright: National Willa Cather Center Extent:  Two boxes Abstract:  The Betty Kort Collection was donated by … Container type: envelope om Betty Kort Collection, Box 1. Abstract:  Willa Cather started this address book in … of the book contain lists of travel items and notes about offices and translators. Subject Terms Genre: Address books …
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Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View

… Image Annotated map of Greenwich Village, by Lew Ney (born Luther Emanuel Widen, 1886-1963), circa 1925. Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New … Bridge and beginning a new novel, which would become O Pioneers!. A new locale was just the thing!  In this …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… nine years old, her family moved to rural Webster County, Nebraska, and later to the town of Red Cloud, where she lived until attending college at the University of Nebraska. Cather’s career began in Pittsburgh, where she … While six of Cather’s novels were inspired by her Nebraska experiences, her writing spans settings that also …
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Willa Cather Biography

… critical monographs have been published which have changed just how Cather is seen and understood. Two of the most … among close readers of Cather show no sign of abating any time soon. Beyond such publication, seminars and … a countryside and a people. That relationship, he knew, cannot be gone after and found; it must be long and deliberate, …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … home of the bride’s mother, Rachel Boak, in Virginia. 1873  — Charles Cather’s brother George and his wife Frances A. … later use this event in one of her most famous novels,  My Antonia . 1882  — Red Cloud becomes a division point for the …
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Book Club Resources

… or reading group! Click on the blocks below to access discussion questions, activities, or images to share.  We would … through our website or the Willa Cather app. Otherwise, contact a member of the National Willa Cather Center to come … offer insights into her writing at your book club. Please contact  Rachel Olsen, Director of Education and Engagement  …
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Bibliography

… Medusa  1920 Obscure Destinies  1932 The Old Beauty and Others  1948 Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912  1965 Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … Table of Contents This Table of Contents for the Willa Cather Review was compiled by Virgil and Dolores Albertini. … Visitors p. 1  Staff Activities p. 1  Publications p. 2  Gifts and Mail Bag p. 2  Future Plans p. 2  … from Cather's "Eric" p. 3  Cather Memorial Prairie is Setting for Workshop p. 4  …
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Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… surfaced, in the collection given to the University of Nebraska Foundation by Cather's nephew, Charles E. Cather, … respected authors. The Foundation is based in Red Cloud, Nebraska, where Willa Cather moved when she was 9 years old. … native prairie, and manages six historic sites owned by the Nebraska State Historic Society. …
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