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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
Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Exterior of the restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Image Earliest image of the Willa … “This restoration is an undertaking we’ve dreamt about for more than a decade,” said National Willa Cather … America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 01/18/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… the country—Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, among many other locations. Beginning in the 1980s, International Willa … for Webster County, Nebraska, northwest of Red Cloud. In April 1883, Cather moved with her extended family—mother, … was then concentrating on poetry—her first book, April Twilights , appeared from a vanity press in 1903. It was …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
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: 12/06/2023
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 …
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
… My Autobiography by S. S. McClure (as ghostwriter) 1914 Not Under Forty 1936 Willa Cather On Writing 1949 Writings from …
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
My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration
… St Winchester , VA 22601 United States Willa Cather’s My Ántonia solidified her growing esteem as a keen observer of … University, Professor of English, Emerita), editor of the Scholarly Edition of Sapphira and the Slave Girl (2000) …
Posted: 03/14/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
17th International Willa Cather Seminar
… Church, attended by some Cather relatives and featured in Sapphira and the Slave Girl . Co-Directors: Marilee Lindemann, University of …
Posted: 08/22/2017
Last Updated: 05/24/2023