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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

Finding Aids

… Checks from City National Bank, Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton Honorary Degree     … TX-50-1000-041 Photocopies of 28 and 29               Newspaper TX-50-1000-043 Charles F. Cather Obituary …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… her life, struggled to write the story of her home state.  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  (1940) is of increasing interest to contemporary …
Posted: 05/23/2023
Last Updated: 11/12/2025

Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Though associated with the Great Plains, American author Willa Cather spent much of her childhood in Frederick … of the renowned writer's sesquicentennial with the National Willa Cather Center. Suggested donations of what you can pay … respected Willa Cather scholar, is currently writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The Selected Letters …
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 National Historic … needed for her brilliant young mind to imagine the whole world. Cather later referred to it as her “rose-bower,” and …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through each volume’s extensive apparatus, … until early 1901, when she accepted a high school teaching position in Pittsburgh, later moving across the …
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

Bibliography

…  1927 Shadows on the Rock  1931 Lucy Gayheart  1935 Sapphira and the Slave Girl  1940 Short Fiction The Troll Garden  1905 Youth and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Cather Book Club: In This Our Life

… and the wrongs done to an African-American boy. Cather’s Sapphira and the Slave Girl, which is the Cather family’s own antebellum story of …
Posted: 08/30/2016
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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