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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

… Mildred Bennett Collection documents the organizational and scholarly work of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial’s … 1884 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 36 Buchan, John A Lost Lady of Old Years 1899 Willa Cather, Pittsburg Pa. Includes …
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 is Nebraska's foremost citizen," wrote author and … to and from the depot south of town. The Red Cloud Opera House , now restored and the offices and performance …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … of the Panic of 1893. Blind Boone, a well-known African American pianist, performs at the Red Cloud Opera House. … McClure’s  as  Alexander’s Masquerade . Cather tours the Southwest for the first time while visiting her brother …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Book Club Resources

… Book Club Resources The National Willa Cather Center can provide … your book club. Please contact  Rachel Olsen, Director of Education and Engagement   at rolsen@willacather.org to …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

Bibliography

… Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929  1972 Poetry April Twilights  1903 April Twilights and Other Poems  1923 Collected Writings and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 1964  Editor: Miriam Mountford  Aim and Interpretation of Catherland p. 1  Plow is a Symbol of Cather Museum p. 1  … Day of Issue p. 1  Willa Cather Centennial Festival--Events at UNL and Red Cloud p. 2  Notice of Mrs. Roscoe … pictures of Elizabeth Boyd,  Annie Pavelka's Daughter p. 2  Musical is Based on Cather Short Story--"Eric Hermannson's …
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

Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

… Image Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium preceding it will be focused on Cather … Spring" at the beginning of her "real" first novel, O Pioneers! , yet her actual first book, April Twilights …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015

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