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My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration

… 100 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 …
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Serena's Album

… for Addie’s favorite composer “Hattie Baker.” Right Addie greatly admires big feet in women and claims as her motto … acquainted with him, then you’ll know.” She quotes from the American poet and satirist John Godfrey Saxe’s “Early … flamboyant technique and extensive American tour in the 1850s helped awaken a taste for classical music among popular …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest … for download. Betty Kort Collection Date range:  1762-1973 Bulk dates:  1918-1943 Finding Aid created by Tracy … Miner Sherwood. Microfilm roll of Day by Day with the Utah Pioneers, 1847 . Language: The material is in English Access …
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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… enjoys a beverage with Bob Thacker & Mark Madigan at the Cather Seminar in Paris in 2007 Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift Inspired by Decades of Rich Cather Experiences October 15, 2025 Willa Cather may not … all the more meaningful.  Image Harris (back left) tours Walnut Canyon with David Porter, Bob Thacker, and John …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … said in an interview, “I had searched for books telling about the beauty of the country I loved, its romance, and …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … with the best in American fiction—with Melville, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Ellison, Bellow, … Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis (2021) . Debates among close readers of Cather …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of … Memorial p. 1  Places Made Famous by Willa Cather p. 2  World Wide Interest in Willa Cather p. 3  10th Anniversary … "The Emerging Voice" p. 2  Willa Cather: "The World and the Parish" is theme for Third National Seminar p. 2  Depot …
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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"

… Image "Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing" July 23, 2009 The 2010 Willa Cather Spring Conference, to be held June 3-5, will offer … with Cather scholars, historians, and cooks; kitchen tours at Cather historic sites, with samplings of …
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