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Serena's Album

… earnest, or in jest,” but this separate document has been lost. The list of questions posed in Mental Portraits is … traveling companion, Adella Hurlbutt specifies “A Cultured Lady.” She is the soul of practicality in her desire if … owners, Sir William Vestey, the first Baron Vestey. Lady Vestey died in 1941 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

… ed. For  Edith Lewis from Willa Cather No dust jacket A Lost Lady BK-50-305 Willa Cather 1923 Limited 1st ed. J/20 For my … 1884 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 36 Buchan, John A Lost Lady of Old Years 1899 Willa Cather, Pittsburg Pa. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Cather Sesquicentennial

… marked the 100th anniversary of her Pulitzer Prize for  One of Ours , as well as publication centenaries of  A Lost Lady … Littleton Alston's statuette of Willa Cather, a recent gift to the library where it will be permanently displayed …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Prize Winner and Twelfth Woman in the Collection June 7, 2023 A bronze sculpture of Willa Cather by artist Littleton … .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library

… FREE-OF-CHARGE Special Events Tuesday, Jun 25, 2024 | 6:30 - 7:30pm ET The Jaffrey Public Library 38 Main Street … emergence. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , Death Comes …
Posted: 06/05/2024
Last Updated: 06/05/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to … 150 Years of Willa Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop , …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … home of the bride’s mother, Rachel Boak, in Virginia. 1873  — Charles Cather’s brother George and his wife Frances A. … later use this event in one of her most famous novels,  My Antonia . 1882  — Red Cloud becomes a division point for …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… Arneson Red Cloud’s Very Own Operatic Soprano August 15, 2023 Sarah Arneson was born and raised in Red Cloud and has … later won a medal in an Austrian shooting competition.  “My parents worked and saved so that I could go to college … “Songs my Mother Taught Me” — Czech immigrants as in My Ántonia and Mr. Schimerda was a violinist in the Prague …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … for the Archbishop  AUTHOR: Mildred R. Bennett p. 3  TITLE: Studies of Willa Cather  AUTHOR: Charlotte S. McClure, … 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

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