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Cather Book Club: Sapphira and the Slave Girl

… On April 21 the Willa Cather Book Club will meet to discuss Sapphira and the Slave Girl . There are two meeting times available; 4:00 p.m. at …
Posted: 12/07/2015
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Through Darkness to Light

… grows on the north side of trees. An estimated 100,000 enslaved people chose to embark on a journey in search of … Willa Cather depicted parts of this journey in her novel Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), basing the story of Nancy's escape on Cather …
Posted: 01/12/2026
Last Updated: 02/13/2026

Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

… with art and history! Nebraska historian Bill Hayes discusses the issue of slavery in the U.S. during the 1850s and … the Civil War! If you would like to bring students, please contact Director of Education and Engagement Rachel Olsen at … an ASL interpreter, or any other accommodations, please contact our Visitor Services Coordinator, Nick Powers, at …
Posted: 01/28/2026
Last Updated: 02/10/2026

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials … works of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. Our museum and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown … “Poliomyelitis” “Not a Bit Chaste” “Book 1-6 typescript and contact sheets The World of Willa Cather reviews 1985 slide …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 02/09/2026

Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … its stabilization and preservation. In October 2025, she donated the birthplace property to Willa Cather's Virginia, … contribute to the community at large.”  The Willa Cather Foundation is proud to be working collaboratively with Willa …
Posted: 05/23/2023
Last Updated: 11/12/2025

Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Image Image A Presentation at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley … the Shenandoah Valley also includes access to the museum's galleries and gardens. Walk-ins welcome as space permits. …
Posted: 10/07/2024
Last Updated: 10/21/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A … Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop , Willa Cather …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) … publish there; it serialized her first novel,  Alexander's Bridge , in 1912. Once she had completed her second novel …
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 … in part on events in the lives of Silas Garber and his wife Lyra Garber, receives serial publication in  Century  at …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… and formative years in Nebraska influenced the novels   Sapphira and the Slave Girl   and   My Ántonia . MSV members: $5; all others: $10. …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023

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