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Alexander's Bridge

… Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s first novel about an ambitious engineer, Bartley … integrity and the life choices he has made.  Though Cather later asked for her second novel, O Pioneers! to be … writing. Told from a more Eurocentric view than her later novels, this is Cather’s first attempt at long-form fiction …
Posted: 07/15/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023

Finding Aids

… explore individual objects in the collection! For a broad view of the collections, finding aids are available for the … OBJ-50-1000-016 Willa Cather     Document Tx-50-1000-017 Articles of Indenture     Document TX-50-1000-018 Jeremiah … Pen holder     Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-1 Small metal purse     Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-2 Small …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View

… work and instead was finishing up proofreading Alexander's Bridge and beginning a new novel, which would become O …
Posted: 01/02/2026
Last Updated: 01/21/2026

Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Critical Biography Bibliography Honors & Achievements Timeline …
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 … suicide would become the basis for Cather's first published story, "Peter," and Annie herself would later serve as …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in … Poems  is released.  A Lost Lady , a novel based in part on events in the lives of Silas Garber and his wife Lyra …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Book Club Resources

… childhood home, the inspiration for the opening scene of Song of the Lark and “Old Mrs. Harris.” The Burlington Depot, the … book club visit to Red Cloud.  O Pioneers! O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark My Ántonia My Ántonia …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

Bibliography

… My Autobiography  by S. S. McClure (as ghostwriter) 1914 Not Under Forty  1936 Willa Cather On Writing  1949 Writings from …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of … Day of Issue p. 1  Willa Cather Centennial Festival--Events at UNL and Red Cloud p. 2  Notice of Mrs. Roscoe … Annual spring Conference Schedule (May 2,1991) (Outline of events) p. 3  TITLE: Garrison Keillor in Red Cloud  AUTHOR: …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… Cather’s Lost Work Published for the First Time At her death in 1947, famed author Willa Cather was working on a … The Professor’s House (1925), My Mortal Enemy (1926), Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Shadows on the Rock (1931), Lucy Gayheart …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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