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My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration

… Image Image Special Events Saturday, Apr 7, 2018 | 2 - 4pm John Handley Regional Library 100 W Piccadilly St Winchester , VA 22601 United States Willa Cather’s  My Ántonia  solidified her growing esteem as a keen observer of …
Posted: 03/14/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest … to the life and works of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. Our museum and archival collections, housed in … agreement   1840 Document TX-50-1000-069 Charles F. Cather biography     Stationery OBJ-50-1000-070 Willa Cather's …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

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 …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

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 … of its soil, and I did not find them. And so I wrote O Pioneers! .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, … literature and correspondence remain the subject of scholarly inquiry. Her writing has been translated into more …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… by singularities. When Philip Roth died in 2018, New Yorker editor David Remnick held that “he was in … editions has been Cather Studies , gatherings of critical essays by various hands, now in its sixteenth volume. Both … periodical that reaches a broad audience beyond academy, is published three times a year by the National Willa …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 2.1  Spring 1958  Editor: Mildred R. Bennett  Officers and Board … Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … Cather and Flaubert  AUTHOR: J. Michel Gervaud p. 2  Spring 1980 Conference Will Move Back to Catherland p. 3  WCPM and … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

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 …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/18/2014

"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"

… Image "Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing" July 23, 2009 The … based on Cather's Nebraska story, " The Bohemian Girl . " O Pioneers! and " The Bohemian Girl " will be the featured … of food and drink in Cather's writing. This day of scholarly papers and discussion will be followed by two days …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/16/2014

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