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Alexander's Bridge

… Image Alexander's Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s first novel about an ambitious engineer, …
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Finding Aids

… Jr., Private Library No. 22 Alcott, Louisa M. Old-Fashioned Girl 1887 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 24 Alcott, … Romance of the Ku Klux Klan 1907 Back page: "pg. 124, 125 Slavery" Dixon, Thomas, Jr. The Southerner: A Romance of the … Cather's Campus Years Willa Cather 1950     Book BK-207-013 Sapphira and the Slave Girl Willa Cather 1940     Book …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short … Center, New Hampshire. Her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, selected her final resting place and designed her tombstone, … , and a large body of nonfiction, journalism, speeches, and letters.  Critical Biography Bibliography Honors & …
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Willa Cather Biography

… as a regional writer for decades after her passing in 1947, critics and commentators have increasingly identified … and this was a decision that transformed her career. Building upon her solid foundation as an energetic … letters.  A Lost Lady, published in 1923, is something of tour de force example of the sort of fiction Cather called …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site that would soon become the town … Register of Historic Places and open year-round for guided tours. Winter 1883 to 1884  — Willa Cather attends a …
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Book Club Resources

… or reading group! Click on the blocks below to access discussion questions, activities, or images to share.  We would … through our website or the Willa Cather app. Otherwise, contact a member of the National Willa Cather Center to come … offer insights into her writing at your book club. Please contact  Rachel Olsen, Director of Education and Engagement  …
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Bibliography

… The Writings of Willa Cather   Novels Alexander's Bridge  1912 O Pioneers!  1913 The Song of the Lark  1915 My Ántonia …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of … also search by issue under the Issues tab, where individual tables of contents are listed with the corresponding issue … TITLE: "Dissolved into Something Complete and Great": The Cathers and the Beginnings of Webster County  AUTHOR: Ann …
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Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published January 10, 2012 Fragments from Willa Cather’s Lost Work Published for the … wrote prolifically; her later works include Alexander’s Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A …
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Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

… May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium … prose is "poetic," very few readers have had much to say about Cather's own poetry. In 1962 scholar Bernice Slote …
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