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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

… Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröck   bookmarks throughout; underlining throughout. "W. Cather … Ouida Signa 1884 n/a Ouida Wanda: Countess von Szalras 1883 bookmarks Overton, Grand M., ed. The Women Who Make Our … 1968   Book April Twilights Willa Cather 1968   Magazine Prairie Schooner : Emily Dickinson Edition (vol. 51 no. 4)   …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

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 Cather’s … contribute to the community at large.”  The Willa Cather Foundation is proud to be working collaboratively with Willa …
Posted: 05/23/2023
Last Updated: 11/12/2025

Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Though associated with the Great Plains, American author Willa Cather spent much of her childhood in Frederick County, … , a highly respected Willa Cather scholar, is currently writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The …
Posted: 10/07/2024
Last Updated: 10/21/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… moved to Nebraska from Virginia in 1883. Her final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. …
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

… it is only a coincidence that passages in his book  The Great Gatsby  closely resemble a passage in Cather’s  A Lost Lady … stipulates this in her will. 1935  — In the midst of the Great Depression, Cather, who is used to helping her friends …
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

…  1927 Shadows on the Rock  1931 Lucy Gayheart  1935 Sapphira and the Slave Girl  1940 Short Fiction The Troll Garden  1905 Youth and …
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

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