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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

… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather was first published in 1951 in The World of … word to the Greeks. Not that the adolescent cheekiness goes missing on this second page. Keeping with her career …
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Finding Aids

… Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska.  Subjects: short stories Cather genealogy Willa Cather personal effects … Checks from City National Bank, Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton … Wedding Anniversary from Willa Cather December 1923   My Ántonia BK-50-306 Willa Cather  1918 1st printing Elsie …
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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 … Lady —Harris’ favorite Cather novel—Cather references Bible stories, Hamlet, a short story by Ivan Turgenev, a novel by … of Humanities at the Webb Institute on Long Island, New York. The selective school specializes in naval …
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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

… Sinclair Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … This bond is borne of Cather's ability to create on her pages intimate portraits of characters understood in … to Cather's development as a writer—once she had made contact with McClure he published her stories ("The …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… are listed with the corresponding issue in PDF format. Summer 1957 to Current 1.1  Summer 1957  FIRST ISSUE  … Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip …
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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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