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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

… its more colorful entries was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s … scholarly perspective on confession albums, and on Cather’s pages in Serena’s album, click here — “Predicting Willa … have seen in Willa Cather’s work — human intimacies on the page, opening out onto expanses of time and distance and …
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Finding Aids

… as hundreds of objects that belonged to the Cather family.  Click here to explore individual objects in the collection! …
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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… Edith Wharton were all taken, so I looked and said, ‘Well, I did read My Ántonia a few years ago and liked it a … problems, and personalities, and she captures them so well in so many of her characters,” Harris said.  What keeps … World War I African American U.S. Army infantry regiment known as the Harlem Hellfighters.  On September 3, he took …
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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 Hall, U.S. Capitol Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol First Pulitzer Prize Winner and Twelfth Woman in the …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost … by singularities. When Philip Roth died in 2018, New Yorker editor David Remnick held that “he was in … of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny enclave of French …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Laura Winters, College of St. Elizabeth p. 31  TITLE: The Internal Gaze: "Coming Aphrodite!" and the Panopticon  …
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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"

… of food and drink in Cather's writing. This day of scholarly papers and discussion will be followed by two days … as in " A Wagner Matinee " or Pauline's career in Lucy Gayheart Wine and/or beer: Vavrika's saloon in " The …
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