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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 engineer, …
Posted: 07/15/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023

Finding Aids

… Checks from City National Bank, Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton Honorary Degree     … TX-50-1000-041 Photocopies of 28 and 29               Newspaper TX-50-1000-043 Charles F. Cather Obituary …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View

… Greenwich Village, by Lew Ney (born Luther Emanuel Widen, 1886-1963), circa 1925. Annotations from the Archives: New Year, … work and instead was finishing up proofreading Alexander's Bridge and beginning a new novel, which would become O …
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

… Image George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic … publish there; it serialized her first novel,  Alexander's Bridge , in 1912. Once she had completed her second novel …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States … that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871  — In Silas Garber’s dugout, Webster County and the … close friend. 1912  — Cather’s first novel,  Alexander’s Bridge , appears in  McClure’s  as  Alexander’s Masquerade . …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Book Club Resources

… childhood home, the inspiration for the opening scene of Song of the Lark and “Old Mrs. Harris.” The Burlington Depot, the … book club visit to Red Cloud.  O Pioneers! O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark My Ántonia My Ántonia …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

Bibliography

… The Writings of Willa Cather   Novels Alexander's Bridge  1912 O Pioneers!  1913 The Song of the Lark  1915 My Ántonia …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … Mary Hancock Hinds, Long Beach Press-Telegram p. 29  TITLE: Postcards to the Past  AUTHOR: Jay Yost p. 31  TITLE: Cather … p. 30  Cover of the 1916 edition of Pinocchio p. 32  Postcard of a street singer and street organ grinder p. 33  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published January 10, 2012 Fragments from Willa Cather’s Lost Work Published for the … wrote prolifically; her later works include Alexander’s Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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