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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

… Our museum and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, … Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröck   bookmarks throughout; underlining throughout. "W. Cather … clippings   WCPM trivet      WCPM plate     Willa Cather Childhood Home Plate (1977)     WCPM metal flower keychain   …
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Through Darkness to Light

… Leading to Another Conductor’s House, 2013 Photographs Along the Underground Railroad Art Gallery Tuesday, Feb 10 - Sunday, Mar 15, 2026 | … 1865. They moved in constant fear of being killed or recaptured, returned, and beaten as an example of what would happen …
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Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

… Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 | 1 - 2pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … found refuge on their journey north to freedom. Willa Cather's final novel Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) … Programming at the National Willa Cather Center's Red Cloud Opera House Gallery is made possible with the support of the …
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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… her life, struggled to write the story of her home state.  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  (1940) is of increasing interest to contemporary …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (Knopf, 2013), and of the … Cather’s Virginia is based in Gore, Virginia, the first home of one of America’s greatest writers. Pulitzer … the complexities of her Virginia birthplace—including the stories of those who inhabited what she described as “that …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A … Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop , Willa Cather …
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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

… Also accompanying the family are Rachel Boak, the hired girl Marjorie (Margie) Anderson, and Willa’s cousins Bess … Isabelle. Getting ready to write a novel about Virginia ( Sapphira and the Slave Girl ), Cather revisits that her native state with …
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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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