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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 … Jeremiah Smith   1793 Ephemera OBJ-50-1000-008 "The Truth About Horace" Poem Written Inside Book Cover Eugene Field   … or consult their institution or publisher for assistance. Mildred Bennett Collection Date range:  1932-1989 Bulk …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

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 … itself. As Skaggs also maintained, Cather "fashioned fictions of such intricacy and resonating depth that all of … from cancer. A private funeral was held in New York, and a memorial service was conducted at Grace Episcopal Church in …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — … One of only three members in her class, Cather is the only student not proclaimed as being bound for lofty things by … April Twilights , is published. Cather meets lifelong companion Edith Lewis. 1905  — Cather’s first collection of …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Book Club Resources

… in the Cather family’s Second Home with your book club; the location where Willa often returned to visit her family and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

Bibliography

… 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 Archbishop  1927 Shadows on the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Miriam Mountford  Title: Prototypes of Characters in My Ántonia Recognized at Spring Banquet  AUTHOR: Victor P. … ISSUE  Editor: Bernice Slote  TITLE: Early Reviews of My Ántonia p. 1  TITLE: Views of Childhood--Book Review by … Red Cloud Newspapers and Cather's "Hired Girls" in My Antonia p.2 AUTHOR: Daryl W. Palmer TITLE: Beulah Land: …
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 … purchased from Cather Books & Gifts by calling 402-746-2653 or online at www.WillaCather.org. Willa Cather has been … her later works include Alexander’s Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A Lost Lady (1923), …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

… models when she moved from the drawing rooms of Alexander's Bridge (1912) to the Nebraska prairies in O Pioneers! …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015

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