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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 …
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Finding Aids

… Genre: Address books (https://lccn.loc.gov/sh94007949) People Name(s): Abbot, Edith, 1876-1957 Adams, P.H. … Georg Homo Sum 1880 n/a Ebers, Georg Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt n/d Bessie Seymour '91 Eggleston, Edward The … Juvenal 1890 n/a Livy The History of Rome, Books XXI and XXII 1905 Elsie Margaret Cather Logan, John A. The Great …
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Through Darkness to Light

… Leading to Another Conductor’s House, 2013 Photographs Along the Underground Railroad Art Gallery Tuesday, Feb 10 - Sunday, Mar 15, 2026 | … 1865. They moved in constant fear of being killed or recaptured, returned, and beaten as an example of what would happen …
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Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

… please contact Director of Education and Engagement Rachel Olsen at rolsen@willacather.org .  Humanities Nebraska (HN) provides …
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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 …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Romney and Winchester.” Indeed, Cather’s final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), is set near her birthplace just a few miles …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … tours—including of the Childhood Home—and a live streamed virtual book launch and reading of Benjamin Taylor’s Chasing …
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Willa Cather Biography

… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in  Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Also accompanying the family are Rachel Boak, the hired girl Marjorie (Margie) Anderson, and Willa’s cousins Bess … Isabelle. Getting ready to write a novel about Virginia ( Sapphira and the Slave Girl ), Cather revisits that her native state with …
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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. …
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