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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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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 …
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Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains
… Image Nebraska's Underground Railroad Special Events Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 | 1 - 2pm CT The National … Programming at the National Willa Cather Center's Red Cloud Opera House Gallery is made possible with the support of the …
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Finding Aids
… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Acquisition Information: Acquisition information is incomplete; the collection has been in Red Cloud for more than …
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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 …
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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
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood … Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop , Willa Cather …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … performances, wrote criticism for concerts and the dramatic arts for Pittsburgh Daily Leader , sent some of the same … Solved: Willa Cather's Violent Self-Construction." Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather. Ed. Joesph R. Urgo and …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… close friend. 1912 — Cather’s first novel, Alexander’s Bridge , appears in McClure’s as Alexander’s Masquerade . …
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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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