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My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration

… W Piccadilly St Winchester , VA 22601 United States Willa Cather’s  My Ántonia  solidified her growing esteem as a … Edition of  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  (2000) and  Willa Cather’s Southern Connections  (2000) will examine the …  and the meeting of American and European cultures on the prairie. Col. Max Frazier (ret.) (U.S. Airforce Academy,  …
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Serena's Album

… signed her album. Serena White lived her entire life in the area, never marrying. She died in 1924. Cather scholar Kari … a widow some years his senior; they lived in the Omaha area and later in Glenwood, Iowa, where together they …
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Finding Aids

… Willa Cather 1922 association copy Mrs. CF Cather The Troll Garden BK-50-323 Willa Cather 1905 1st printing association …   Book The Song of the Lark Willa Cather  1988   Book The Troll Garden Willa Cather 1961   Book Friend of My …
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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… were all taken, so I looked and said, ‘Well, I did read My Ántonia a few years ago and liked it a lot,’” Harris … Willa Cather Review ,  Cather Studies , and editing the scholarly edition of  One of Ours.  “She was a first-rate …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career … literature and correspondence remain the subject of scholarly inquiry. Her writing has been translated into more …
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Willa Cather Biography

… northern Virginia to the pioneering prairie of the Nebraska Divide—a sensitive child at a critical age—was in many ways … for an incipient writer: though sparsely settled, the Divide between the Republican and Blue rivers offered her … put them too in some of her novels. During her time on the Divide, Cather attended a one-room school house, but Charles …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Issue  Editor: Bernice Slote  TITLE: The Themes That Bind--Obscure Destinies  AUTHOR: Claire Mattern p. 1  TITLE: "Two … AUTHOR: Patricia Youngue p. 2  TITLE:  On the Title--Obscure Destinies AUTHOR: JoAnna Lathrop p. 3  TITLE: The …
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Antonia's Accent

… over the first syllable in her memorable character's name — Ántonia — to indicate the greater stress that syllable would … the accent in our references to the character or to My Antonia. Some of these visitors will, with justification, … a debate we're quite willing to conduct. As readers of the Scholarly Edition of the novel will know: "In Czech the name …
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"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"

… of food and drink in Cather's writing. This day of scholarly papers and discussion will be followed by two days … production: agriculture and the Great Plains ( O Pioneers , My Antonia, One of Ours , etc.) as well as agriculture in … their papers for possible publication in a special expanded edition of The Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. Please …
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