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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, 2017 Willa … her emergent modernism. An epilogue by the editors of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather addresses how the recent …
Posted: 08/21/2017
Last Updated: 09/27/2017

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost … the 2023 iteration was “Complex and Brilliant: Cather at 150,” reflecting the sesquicentennial of Cather birth in …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 5.1  Spring 1961 Editor: Miriam Mountford  Letter to Supporters p. 1  … p. 1  Conference Schedule p. 1  A Cornish Childhood p. 2  Gallery Holds "Feelings": Four Lucy Gayheart Paintings by … TITLE: The Non-Interpretation of Dreams: Cather's Use of Detail in Characterization  AUTHOR: Margaret Doane p. 60  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Serena's Album

… two more would be born in the next several years. The tiny settlement known as “Elora” — Mrs. Keifer gives it as her … of a town, established in 1882 by Mr. Keifer and another settler, and discontinued in 1891. Much of the nearby land … frequently advocated reform). Extravagant bustles and corseting were still common in the mid-1880s, but Belle Barclay …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

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

… Cather's work was influenced by or in conversation with the events that the Chief documented. As timing would have it, a …
Posted: 09/01/2024
Last Updated: 09/04/2024

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 …
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

… May 19, 2021 Jeanette Barbour wrote a profile, “A Woman Editor,” in the Pittsburg Press (March 28, 1897), with these … Cather's early and prolific career in magazine writing and editing: “Miss Willa Cather, the editor of the Home Monthly , is not Pittsburger, but she is …
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

… 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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