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My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration

… St Winchester , VA 22601 United States Willa Cather’s  My Ántonia  solidified her growing esteem as a keen observer of … University, Professor of English, Emerita), editor of the Scholarly Edition of  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  (2000) …
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Serena's Album

… Richard II: “Nay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost ours.” The “autographic confessions” in Serena’s album span … upon Mary for Julia, the musical Harling sister, in My Ántonia , and Mary played the Beast in the production of … C. Laslette,” minister there from March to May, 1899. (The final e on his name begins to appear in records about this …
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Finding Aids

… Boris Hambourg, ? Heinemann, William, 1863-1920 Hess, Julia Myra Hibben, Jenny Davidson Hibben, John Grier Hills, Laura … Mildred Bennett Collection documents the organizational and scholarly work of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial’s … 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

… Gift Inspired by Decades of Rich Cather Experiences October 15, 2025 Willa Cather may not have been Richard … kind of creativity is fascinating and very rare. And she does this book after book after book,” Harris said. Harris, … Those experiences are certainly one of the many positive things in my life,” Harris said. Harris’s latest interest …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… in the centenary year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska … .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career … for Statuary Hall, and I'm thrilled that Nebraska will finally have a literary heroine representing our state in …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic portrait of … brilliant," and that "she knows at all points what she is doing. Above all else, she is self conscious" (187). Writing … (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … 16.2  Spring 1972  LITERARY ISSUE Editor: Bernice Slote  TITLE: Willa Cather … 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"

… will range throughout Cather's writing. Ann Romines and Lu Williams will serve as co-directors for the conference; if … by two days of events related to the conference theme, including kitchen tours at Cather-related sites, food and wine …
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