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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Charles and Mary Virginia Cather rented the home through 1904. Many of Cather’s books depict life in Red Cloud and … Cather house is vividly described in Cather's novel, The Song of the Lark , and short stories, “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 04/25/2024
69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. Cather … pleased by hearing the comments of her own readers. From an early age, she established her “library,” with her books … areas: Representations of readers and reading in Cather’s novels and short stories. How readers navigate challenging …
Posted: 09/21/2023
Last Updated: 04/20/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … and deliberate, unconscious. It must, indeed, be a way of living" (78). The Early Years, 1873-1890 Cather was born in …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Willa Cather Timeline
… Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site that would soon … set in Brownville, Nebraska, is published in the April 1897 issue of Home Monthly . Cather returns to Red … — Cather’s first book, a collection of poems titled April Twilights , is published. Cather meets lifelong companion …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Willa Cather: Life & Literature
… others: $10. Please register by October 20. Register at the link above or call 540-662-1473, ext. 240. …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023
50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… spirit and courage of pioneer life, which she knew so well. Usually this was life in Nebraska, but she turned also … to hear Regional Postmaster General Clarence B. Gels speak about Willa Cather. Also in the audience were relatives of … her name became established in the east. She had become known as one of Nebraska’s leading newspaper women and had …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023
Cather Weekend on Governors Island
… and publications. We’ll be offering Willa Cather books and other merchandise as special giveaways. Information on a … make her famous, she made a mark as a poet. Her first book, April Twilights (1903), was a collection of poetry and her poems …
Posted: 08/01/2017
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… 2.1 Spring 1958 Editor: Mildred R. Bennett Officers and Board … 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 … II p. 13 Other item-in this issue: Plans underway for 1986 national seminar p. 14 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023
2015 Willa Cather International Seminar
… Image 2015 Willa Cather International Seminar March 2, 2015 15th … Nebraska experience—Red Cloud and Lincoln. Cather spent her early life in Red Cloud and six of her twelve novels are at least partially set there. Her years in …
Posted: 03/02/2015
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
Willa Cather Spring Conference Offers FREE Events
… contemporaries, as well as the legacy of the war on American culture. The public is invited to attend several … on the conference theme. James is the author of The New Death: American Modernism and World War I , which examines …
Posted: 05/26/2016
Last Updated: 07/19/2022