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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
… 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 …
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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
… - 2pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States Enjoy an afternoon filled … escaped to freedom and traveled roughly 2,000 miles to visit actual sites, cities, and places that freedom-seekers …
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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund
… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … uses for the site, including educational programs, literary events, and community gatherings that honor Willa … rural origins of a great writer who, toward the end of her life, struggled to write the story of her home state. …
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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 … restoration in more than fifty years. A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa Cather Childhood … The exterior was repainted in the familiar brown-toned historic palette, reconfirmed after a careful paint …
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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
… near a site that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871 — In Silas Garber’s dugout, Webster County … the Little Blue and Republican rivers in south central Nebraska, 16 miles northwest of Red Cloud. Charles and Mary … name to “Willa” later. Silas Garber is elected governor of Nebraska. 1874 — Willa Cather and her parents move into the …
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Willa Cather: Life & Literature
… Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center Image Willa Cather, 9, taken in Virginia … history of Willa Cather, Olsen will detail how the writer’s early years in Frederick County, Virginia, and formative years in Nebraska influenced the novels Sapphira and the Slave Girl and My Ántonia . …
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