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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

… Jr., Private Library No. 22 Alcott, Louisa M. Old-Fashioned Girl 1887 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 24 Alcott, … Romance of the Ku Klux Klan 1907 Back page: "pg. 124, 125 Slavery" Dixon, Thomas, Jr. The Southerner: A Romance of the … Cather's Campus Years Willa Cather 1950     Book BK-207-013 Sapphira and the Slave Girl Willa Cather 1940     Book …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

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

… - 2pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States Enjoy an afternoon filled … at the National Willa Cather Center's Red Cloud Opera House Gallery is made possible with the support of the Baldwin …
Posted: 01/28/2026
Last Updated: 02/10/2026

Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation … stabilization and eventual restoration and programming.  ABOUT THE BIRTHPLACE The Cather birthplace remains a …
Posted: 05/23/2023
Last Updated: 11/12/2025

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 …
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 … Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour … through 1904. Many of Cather’s books depict life in Red Cloud and Webster County during the author’s formative …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

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 …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … miles by team and wagon to the precinct of Catherton. They settle at the homestead of William and Caroline Cather. … need, sends $50 to Annie Sadilek Pavelka to be used for a gift. Annie uses the money to pay for taxes on her farm …
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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