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New! Cather Studies 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux

… Image New! Cather Studies 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux August … made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century. … these essays detail Cather’s shaping of the world of the early twentieth century and later into a singular modernism …
Posted: 08/21/2017
Last Updated: 09/27/2017

Willa Cather Biography

… at the Red Cloud train depot and drove the twelve miles by team and wagon into the country. The family then stopped at … and Blue rivers offered her multiple opportunities to meet and gather information from immigrants and other … in Red Cloud, she continued to explore the countryside, meet new people, and remained an active presence in the …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Leader, 1897) p. 1  AUTHOR: Willa Cather  TITLE: Great Forking Trees (from a 1921 Cather Interview in … (Four Play Reviews from the Pittsburgh Leader) p. 1  "An American Citizen" p. 1  "Nethersole's Carmen" p. 2  "John … Dr. Wilbur K. Bennett  (April 13, 1913 - Dec.7, 1991) p. 50  Also in this issue:  Opera House Accepted as Gift from …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Serena's Album

… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather was first published in 1951 in The World of … to live in Shenandoah, Iowa. They had a son, Fayette, born about 1891, and a daughter, Genevieve, born about 1894. J. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief

… and constitutions. But they also served as a sort of directory—long before the Yellow Pages or Google—of … were hard to come by.  Image Red Cloud Chief Business Directory, 1874 When newspapers began to be scanned for … documented. As timing would have it, a few weeks ago, NWCC staff saw an intriguing post on the Blue Hill Leader …
Posted: 09/01/2024
Last Updated: 09/04/2024

The Passing Show

… Dominican University, one of our Spring Conference Academic Directors, this traditionally unstructured panel allows for …
Posted: 05/09/2024
Last Updated: 05/14/2024

Pavelka Farmstead

… 2010 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.  In addition to being an unassuming farm wife with … immigrant stories and rich multiculturalism that shaped the Great Plains at the dawn of the twentieth century. Pavelka’s … Women Made History " 2020 online crowdsourcing project of American women and their significant places:  Pavelka …
Posted: 12/05/2014
Last Updated: 09/08/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… them up etc. You know what I want, personal matter that the newspapers dont give. Of course I will keep your name out of … an experience with the managing editor of the ‘Times’ and ‘News’ that I thought might interest you, so I'll take time … to me.’ Told me to go ahead and do some special [illegible] articles as things struck me and he'd take them. Said there …
Posted: 05/19/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Newly Appointed Board Members Announced

… Appointed Board Members Announced January 9, 2018 The Willa Cather Foundation, along with a global community of scholars … Cather Seminar, and will be co-editing the Cather Studies volume 13. Dr. Jaap resides in the East End neighborhood of …
Posted: 01/09/2018
Last Updated: 01/09/2018

Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

… May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium … Cather's Poems, now in preparation, will be among the last volumes published in that series by the University of … be sent by February 15, 2012 to: Robert Thacker Canadian Studies Program St. Lawrence University Canton, New York …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015

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