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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 …
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Willa Cather Biography

… increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) … publish there; it serialized her first novel,  Alexander's Bridge , in 1912. Once she had completed her second novel …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … Wide Interest in Willa Cather p. 3  10th Anniversary of Foundation p. 3  Future Event with John G. Neihardt p. 4  … p. 1  Conference Schedule p. 1  A Cornish Childhood p. 2  Gallery Holds "Feelings": Four Lucy Gayheart Paintings by …
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Serena's Album

… family came to Nebraska between 1880 and 1885; her father farmed near Bostwick in Nuckolls County. After attending … her album. Serena White lived her entire life in the area, never marrying. She died in 1924. Cather scholar Kari … settlement known as “Elora” — Mrs. Keifer gives it as her home — was essentially a post office in search of a town, …
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Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief

… we received the last edition of the Red Cloud Chief , a newspaper that had a 150-year history. It was Webster … local history or, in our case, exploring the life of Willa Cather. We know that Willa Cather held a warm place in her … Company K Guard unit, I wanted to see what I could find out about Seb,” Tucker said. Image Seb Johnson serving in …
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The Passing Show

… Image Pleasures and Disruptions: Reading Cather Collectively … , and The Toast. She is the editor of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays (Bloomsbury, 2019) and the …
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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 …
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Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection in the Special Collections and Archives at the National Willa Cather Center that relate specifically to … out of life. At first I rebelled at some things, I had to learn that every editor is not a Mr. Gere or a Mr. Jones. …
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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 …
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Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

… first novel, O Pioneers! , yet her actual first book, April Twilights (1903), and its contexts, have received much less … a novelist, this shift was confirmed by April Twilights and Other Poems (1923), a very different collection from that …
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