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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
… 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: 01/18/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost citizen," wrote author and Nobel … of American literary Modernism has only increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition … of the 2023 iteration was “Complex and Brilliant: Cather at 150,” reflecting the sesquicentennial of Cather birth in …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
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 …
Posted: 05/23/2023
Last Updated: 12/06/2023
Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas … selling farm loans and insurance downtown and rents a story-and-a-half frame house on 3rd and Cedar Streets. Built … of the Panic of 1893. Blind Boone, a well-known African American pianist, performs at the Red Cloud Opera House. …
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
17th International Willa Cather Seminar
… Church, attended by some Cather relatives and featured in Sapphira and the Slave Girl . Co-Directors: Marilee Lindemann, University of …
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
My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration
… of English, Emerita), editor of the Scholarly Edition of Sapphira and the Slave Girl (2000) and Willa Cather’s Southern Connections …
Posted: 03/14/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023