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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 … Willa Cather Foundation. She will focus on the presence of World War I in  My Ántonia  and the depiction of immigrant …
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Serena's Album

… Mental Portraits , probably as a 16th birthday gift. These books, also known as autograph albums or confession albums, … was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather … two more would be born in the next several years. The tiny settlement known as “Elora” — Mrs. Keifer gives it as her …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … photographs, art and decorative arts, journals, and rare book collections, as well as items belonging to Willa Cather … c/o Todd, Frank L. Trowbridge, Augustus Tyrrell, William Undset, Sigrid Van Vechten, Carl Vermorcken [see Moorhead] …
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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… a beverage with Bob Thacker & Mark Madigan at the Cather Seminar in Paris in 2007 Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy … Harris’s first choice for a 20th-century American novel seminar paper in 1971, but he’s been choosing her ever … 1987, and he’s traveled across the country and abroad for International Willa Cather Seminars. “The Cather group was …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… She joins Ponca Chief Standing Bear, installed in 2019, as one of two new sculptures that represent Nebraska. The … also comes in the centenary year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska …
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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 … periodical that reaches a broad audience beyond academy, is published three times a year by the National Willa … It would be followed in 1918 with the more personal  My Ántonia  where the narrative proper begins with the very …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Mountford  Meetings in Catherland--Cather Day p. 1  Western Literature Association p. 1  Nebraska Historical Society p. … Leader, 1897) p. 1  AUTHOR: Willa Cather  TITLE: Great Forking Trees (from a 1921 Cather Interview in … of Willa Cather  AUTHOR: Herb Hyde p. 19  TITLE: A Great Plains Center Tribute to Willa Cather  AUTHOR: Herb Hyde p. …
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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"

… in a special expanded edition of The Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. Please send your proposals, as well … in a special expanded edition of The Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. Please send your proposals, as well …
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