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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 21, … Beginning with a prologue locating Cather’s position, this volume of Cather Studies offers three sets of related …
Posted: 08/21/2017
Last Updated: 09/27/2017

Willa Cather Biography

… in Nebraska, Quebec City (with a pre-trip to Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick), Virginia, Vermont, France (Paris and … borne of Cather's ability to create on her pages intimate portraits of characters understood in relation to their … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 2.1  Spring 1958  Editor: Mildred R. Bennett  Officers and Board … G. Neihardt p. 1 Report of Museum Dedication and Spring Conference p. 1  Progress Report p. 2  Donations and Museum … Scholarships p. 2  Museum and Contributions p. 2  Expanded Schedule p. 3  Plans for the Future and Spring Conference p. … 51.3 Winter 2008 Issue Editor:  Ann Romines Managing Editor:  Betty Kort …
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 … theorizes that Serena came to Red Cloud to continue her studies with J. F. Curran, the very popular Superior High … photographer, of German parentage. He appears in an 1899 volume entitled Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

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

… from the first extant Red Cloud Chief, October 9, 1873 Volume I, No. 15, is the first surviving issue of the Red … local history or, in our case, exploring the life of Willa Cather. We know that Willa Cather held a warm place in her … a regular reader of that newspaper. Decades later as Cather Studies were just beginning, it was through those preserved …
Posted: 09/01/2024
Last Updated: 09/04/2024

The Passing Show

… Image Pleasures and Disruptions: Reading Cather Collectively Spring Conference Saturday, Jun 8, 2024 … and Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wyoming. Her writing on 19th … Writers , a more inclusive update to their Four Stories volume, is forthcoming from Penguin Classics in 2025. She is …
Posted: 05/09/2024
Last Updated: 05/14/2024

Pavelka Farmstead

… of life out of the dark cave into the sunlight.” — My Ántonia The Pavelka Farmstead and the fruit cave described … at 100 (issue theme) —  Willa Cather Review, Volume 60: No. 3, Winter 2018 New Scholarship on My Ántonia (issue …
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

… January 9, 2018 The Willa Cather Foundation, along with a global community of scholars and lovers of classic American … recognize that Willa Cather’s work is as appreciated and globally relevant today as it was at the time of …
Posted: 01/09/2018
Last Updated: 01/09/2018

Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

… Image Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium preceding it will be focused on Cather … Spring" at the beginning of her "real" first novel, O Pioneers! , yet her actual first book, April Twilights …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015

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