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Alexander's Bridge

… Image Alexander's Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s … made.  Though Cather later asked for her second novel, O Pioneers! to be considered her first real attempt at a book, …
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 … and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, … Correspondence between Jane Pope Geske, a bookseller with Niobrara Books in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Mildred Bennett, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View

… Image Annotated map of Greenwich Village, by Lew Ney (born Luther Emanuel Widen, 1886-1963), circa 1925. Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View … Bridge and beginning a new novel, which would become O Pioneers!. A new locale was just the thing!  In this …
Posted: 01/02/2026
Last Updated: 01/21/2026

Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short Biography of Willa Cather 1873–1947 Willa Cather was born in Back Creek Valley, Virginia, in …
Posted: 05/04/2023
Last Updated: 07/12/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in  Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Also accompanying the family are Rachel Boak, the hired girl Marjorie (Margie) Anderson, and Willa’s cousins Bess … Isabelle. Getting ready to write a novel about Virginia ( Sapphira and the Slave Girl ), Cather revisits that her native state with …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Book Club Resources

… Take a tour of the town that raised Cather and peek into historical sites that deeply influenced the prolific writer. Sites … your book club; the location where Willa often returned to visit her family and friends.  If your group can’t make it …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

Bibliography

… Image Bibliography The Writings of Willa Cather   Novels Alexander's Bridge  1912 O Pioneers!  1913 The Song of the Lark  1915 My Ántonia  1918 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 1.2  Fall 1957  Editor: Miriam Mountford  Staff Activities p. 1  … Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip … 1  Ninth International Willa Cather Seminar in Vermont in 2003 p. 18  Cather at the American Literature Association …
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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