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Finding Aids

… Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska.  Subjects: short stories Cather genealogy Willa Cather personal effects … Mrs. Gunn, Anita Hambourg, Boris Hambourg, ? Heinemann, William, 1863-1920 Hess, Julia Myra Hibben, Jenny Davidson … in the collection include notes from oral histories collected by Bennett and John March, transcripts of Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Willa Cather Biography

… returned to Nebraska from Quebec in her penultimate novel,  Lucy Gayheart , Cather offers a description of a character … (v). As she would later write of Clement Sebastian in  Lucy Gayheart , Cather was herself "nearing fifty" (78) and … the characters of the early  The Song of the Lark  to make  Lucy Gayheart —there, Lucy's talents and personal …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871  — In Silas Garber’s dugout, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Novels

… that sturdy little companion with whom she shared a secret." Document The Song of the Lark Curriculum 1.04 MB …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/28/2023

Bibliography

… My Autobiography  by S. S. McClure (as ghostwriter) 1914 Not Under Forty  1936 Willa Cather On Writing  1949 Writings from …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Cather's Early Works p. 2  TITLE: A Note on The White Bear Stories  AUTHOR: Mildred R. Bennett p. 4  … Song of The Lark  AUTHOR: Elsa Nettles, College of William and Mary p. 27  TITLE: My Mortal Enemy: Willa … 45 Cather as "Singing Novelist", Looking Toward a Scholarly Collected Poems p. 46 Call for Papers: Food, Drink, and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… to have cared for these important properties for the last forty years. The Willa Cather Foundation is an excellent … is especially beloved because of Cather’s preserved bedroom under the eaves where she did her first writing and where …
Posted: 01/18/2019
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

"Not Stones At All, But Life Itself"

… because we can see something of our own aspiration and error in them. Like Clara in "The Bohemian Girl," drawing …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/16/2014

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