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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather
… Writings Students & Teachers Students & Teachers Upcoming Events Upcoming Events Recent News Recent News The Big Read of My Ántonia … Programs or Learn More Cather Books & Gifts Something for Everyone Our online store offers a vast selection of …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Cather house is vividly described in Cather's novel, The Song of the Lark , and short stories, “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best … is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. Events took place across the country throughout 2023-2024 to …
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Finding Aids
… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of …
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Guided Seasonal Tour
… Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for their … Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of Red Cloud. More than that, Cather's memorable … success as a farm family, it also symbolizes the immigrant stories and rich multiculturalism that shaped the Great …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration
… Romney and Winchester.” Indeed, Cather’s final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), is set near her birthplace just a few miles …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … sites were offered at 11:00 a.m., and 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. World renowned author Willa Cather spent her formative years …
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Historic Sites
… dedicated to an American author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the … to sixteen. The house is described in detail in the short stories “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best Years,” and … Cather’s attic bedroom retains the wallpaper she selected while she worked in Dr. Henry Cook's drugstore. In …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Sinclair Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … what she is doing. Above all else, she is self conscious" (187). Writing this concluding assessment in the … to Cather's development as a writer—once she had made contact with McClure he published her stories ("The …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail
… the Archives: Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa Cather’s letters, but to many of the … family struggled to survive, was the author of hundreds of stories and poems, the proceeds of which helped to keep the … Collection Kate M. Cleary: a Literary Biography with Selected Works , by Susanne George-Bloomfield …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … access to specific articles and special features of each issue of the Review since its first publication in 1957. … 1964 Editor: Miriam Mountford Aim and Interpretation of Catherland p. 1 Plow is a Symbol of Cather Museum p. 1 … p. 3 Cather Garden Dedicated p. 3 New Signs Placed on Country Roads p. 4 …
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