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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather
… Faulkner and Wharton. Life & Literature Recent News Shop Books & Gifts The Willa Cather Foundation is a … Students & Teachers Upcoming Events Upcoming Events Recent News Recent News The Big Read of My Ántonia Programs Offered to …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … interpretation; a climate control system and a new roof and foundation. Enclosure of the attic space and extensive … of the most remarkable and compelling periods in American history.” She referred to the sites and collections in Red …
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Finding Aids
… Stephen, 1906-1987 Then or Tien? c/o Todd, Frank L. Trowbridge, Augustus Tyrrell, William Undset, Sigrid Van … Mildred Bennett Collection documents the organizational and scholarly work of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial’s … her family. Some pre-publication copies of books, limited editions, and books by other authors but selected by Cather …
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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
… Though associated with the Great Plains, American author Willa Cather spent much of her childhood in Frederick … of the renowned writer's sesquicentennial with the National Willa Cather Center. Suggested donations of what you can pay … respected Willa Cather scholar, is currently writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The Selected Letters …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… of sculpture at Creighton University in Omaha, was selected from over seventy artists to create the Willa … of Virginia, among others, many of her most well-known stories are about Nebraska and its people. I hope her … Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members Andrew Jewell and Melissa Homestead praised Cather's selection as a representative of …
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Historic Sites
… from the ages of ten to sixteen. The house is described in detail in the short stories “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best Years,” and Cather's attic bedroom is described in detail in her 1915 novel The Song of the Lark. The home was … a diverse schedule that includes theater, music, lectures, gallery exhibits, and much more. The Opera House was donated …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on … until early 1901, when she accepted a high school teaching position in Pittsburgh, later moving across 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
… 1.2 Fall 1957 Editor: Miriam Mountford Staff Activities p. 1 … Sign p. 1 Aims of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial p. 1 Places Made Famous by Willa Cather p. 2 World Wide Interest … p. 1 Conference Schedule p. 1 A Cornish Childhood p. 2 Gallery Holds "Feelings": Four Lucy Gayheart Paintings by …
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