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My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration

… of English, Emerita), editor of the Scholarly Edition of  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  (2000) and  Willa Cather’s Southern Connections  …
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Serena's Album

… family came to Nebraska between 1880 and 1885; her father farmed near Bostwick in Nuckolls County. After attending … her album. Serena White lived her entire life in the area, never marrying. She died in 1924. Cather scholar Kari … settlement known as “Elora” — Mrs. Keifer gives it as her home — was essentially a post office in search of a town, …
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Finding Aids

… by a straight pin.  The maker of the address book and its place of purchase are currently unknown. No dates are … Books   Geographic Names, United States Atlanta (inhabited place) Berkeley (inhabited place) Billerica (inhabited … Life in Relation to the Creative Spirit in Man and Nature 1906  Francis E. Duncan Book sold from Miller & Paine …
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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

… Willa Cather, an author who explored both the meaning and place of gender roles, now represents Nebraska at our … Rights, speaks to the diversity of Nebraska and our state’s place in the nation’s history.” University of … I aim to capture her standing, as if surrounded by nature, at home in the Nebraska prairie.” Cather’s likeness …
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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

… Miriam Mountford  Title: Prototypes of Characters in My Ántonia Recognized at Spring Banquet  AUTHOR: Victor P. Hass … S. Shannon, daughter of Roscoe Cather dies p. 11  First scholarly volumes to be produced p. 37  …
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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"

… supper based on Cather's Nebraska story, " The Bohemian Girl . " O Pioneers! and " The Bohemian Girl " will be the … as agriculture in other regions, as in Shadows on the Rock, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Death Comes for the Archbishop Cookbooks (The …
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