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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 … Fisher New York Herald Tribune 1933 Clipping TX-50-1000-054 Review of  April Twilights Pittsburg Gazette 1903 Clipping …
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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 … contribute to the community at large.”  The Willa Cather Foundation is proud to be working collaboratively with Willa … 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

… Image Image A Presentation at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley … the Shenandoah Valley also includes access to the museum's galleries and gardens. Walk-ins welcome as space permits. …
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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. …
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Willa Cather Biography

… the country—Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, among many other locations. Beginning in the 1980s, International Willa … for Webster County, Nebraska, northwest of Red Cloud. In April 1883, Cather moved with her extended family—mother, … was then concentrating on poetry—her first book,  April Twilights , appeared from a vanity press in 1903. It was …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site that would soon … set in Brownville, Nebraska, is published in the April 1897 issue of Home Monthly . Cather returns to Red …  — Cather’s first book, a collection of poems titled  April Twilights , is published. Cather meets lifelong companion …
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Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… by Ashley Olson Special Events Sunday, Oct 22, 2023 | 3 - 4pm Museum of the Shenandoah Valley 901 Amherst Street … influenced the novels   Sapphira and the Slave Girl   and   My Ántonia . MSV members: $5; all others: $10. Please register …
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