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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

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related … Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, historic photographs, art and decorative arts, journals, and rare … Pen holder     Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-1 Small metal purse     Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-2 …
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Through Darkness to Light

… example of what would happen to others who might choose to run. Under the cover of darkness, “fugitives” traveled …
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Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

… Events Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 | 1 - 2pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … at the National Willa Cather Center's Red Cloud Opera House Gallery is made possible with the support of the Baldwin …
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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 Cather’s … contribute to the community at large.”  The Willa Cather Foundation is proud to be working collaboratively with Willa …
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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 … Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most …
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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 …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… uncle and aunt of Willa Cather) stake a homestead on the Divide, a broad stretch of land between the Little Blue and … short story to be published in a national magazine, “On the Divide,” appears in  Overland Monthly . Annie Sadilek …
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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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