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Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights

… from the Archive: April Twilights April 8, 2025 Though Willa Cather is known worldwide as a novelist, her first … the time April Twilights was published in 1903, Cather was teaching high school in Pittsburgh. Though she had initially … hold a number of poetry typescripts, including unpublished works like “The Easter Rabbit” and “I Cannot Say, Forget.” …
Posted: 04/03/2023
Last Updated: 04/08/2025

Finding Aids

… William Boone, nd) Box 47 Alicia Blue materials     Brockway Paper Collection Date range:  1880–1987 Bulk dates: … Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great 1880 Wm. Cather Jr. Private Library No. 71 Akins, Zoë Interpretations: A Book of … M. Jack and Jill: A Village Story 1887 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 25 Alcott, Louisa M. Jo's Boys: And How …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are … download the National Willa Cather Center app for virtual tours . Organizations or communities that would like to … House, Red Cloud, NE Nov 8 & Nov 12 — Cather's Santa Fe: A Walking Tour , 1:00-3:30 p.m. MT, Santa Fe, NM Nov 9 — …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… northern Virginia to the pioneering prairie of the Nebraska Divide—a sensitive child at a critical age—was in many ways … for an incipient writer: though sparsely settled, the Divide between the Republican and Blue rivers offered her … put them too in some of her novels. During her time on the Divide, Cather attended a one-room school house, but Charles …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States … that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871  — In Silas Garber’s dugout, Webster County and the … close friend. 1912  — Cather’s first novel,  Alexander’s Bridge , appears in  McClure’s  as  Alexander’s Masquerade . …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration

… well as the publication centenaries for  A Lost Lady  and  April Twilights and Other Poems.  The celebration will include short readings …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

The Bel Canto Duo: Four Cather Tableaux

… A Lost Lady , "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," April Twilights and Other Poems, and One of Ours , publications that defined …
Posted: 04/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2023

68th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Spring Conference Thursday, Jun 1, 2023 | 9am - Saturday, Jun 3, … and Brilliant: Cather at 150 Our 68th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, held during Willa Cather's sesquicentennial …
Posted: 06/08/2022
Last Updated: 05/31/2023

Bibliography

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

Cather Weekend on Governors Island

… Park Governors Island , NY 10004 United States The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) is partnering with the Empire State … to renowned author and former New York resident Willa Cather. Join us to learn more about the WCF’s new museum and … own development as a novelist and by the career of an opera diva, The Song of the Lark examines the themes of the …
Posted: 08/01/2017
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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