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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
… best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop , Willa Cather has become known as one of …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 01/18/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… northern Virginia to the pioneering prairie of the Nebraska Divide—a sensitive child at a critical age—was in many ways … for an incipient writer: though sparsely settled, the Divide between the Republican and Blue rivers offered her … put them too in some of her novels. During her time on the Divide, Cather attended a one-room school house, but Charles …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund
… Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation efforts As American author Willa Cather’s 150th approaches, her birth home, a rural farmhouse in the … remains a testament to the humble, rural origins of a great writer who, toward the end of her life, struggled to …
Posted: 05/23/2023
Last Updated: 12/06/2023
Willa Cather Timeline
… close friend. 1912 — Cather’s first novel, Alexander’s Bridge , appears in McClure’s as Alexander’s Masquerade . …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Willa Cather: Life & Literature
… Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center Image Willa Cather, 9, taken in Virginia … the Slave Girl and My Ántonia . MSV members: $5; all others: $10. Please register by October 20. Register at the …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023
Bibliography
… Ántonia 1918 One of Ours 1922 A Lost Lady 1923 The Professor's House 1925 My Mortal Enemy 1926 Death Comes for the … and Other Poems 1923 Collected Writings and Other Works My Autobiography by S. S. McClure (as ghostwriter) 1914 Not Under Forty 1936 Willa …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration
… Image Image Special Events Saturday, Apr 7, 2018 | 2 - 4pm John Handley Regional Library 100 W Piccadilly … St Winchester , VA 22601 United States Willa Cather’s My Ántonia solidified her growing esteem as a keen observer of …
Posted: 03/14/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
17th International Willa Cather Seminar
… 22, 2019 | 12am Shenandoah University 1460 University Drive Winchester , VA 22601 United States Please join us in … cemetery where her Confederate uncle, fatally wounded in a Civil War battle, is buried, as well as other family cemeteries. …
Posted: 08/22/2017
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