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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

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related to the life and works of Pulitzer …
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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 … World War I African American U.S. Army infantry regiment known as the Harlem Hellfighters.  On September 3, he took … very special.”  If you would like additional information about the Cather Legacy Society, or if you have named the …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… them. And so I wrote O Pioneers! .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, … who have volunteered their services for the past three years to bring the unveiling of the statue to … incorporated. These include a turquoise jacket that was a gift to Cather from her editors, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, …
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Willa Cather Biography

… he published her stories ("The Sculpter's Funeral," "Paul's Case"), but after she arrived there her contributions to the … Harbison. New York: Penguin, 1999. Hicks, Granville. "The Case Against Willa Cather." 1933. Willa Cather and      Her …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Perspective  AUTHOR: Joseph C. Murphy p. 31  TITLE: "Paul's Case" in the High School Classroom  AUTHOR: Mellanee … in Death Comes for the Archbishop  AUTHOR: Thomas M. Casey GSA, Merrimack College p. 22  TITLE: On the Precipice … Daggett's "My French Friend": A Precursor of "Paul's Case?"  AUTHOR: Lawrence I. Berkove, University of Michigan …
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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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