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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
… (Heinemann, London) Faxon Field, Theron Field, Emilia R. Flower, Newman Foote Raffy, Katherine Fox, Howard Freeman, … and journals, Union College, Western Literature, Prairie Schooner, etc Box 46 Cassettes and Recordings … Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröck bookmarks throughout; underlining throughout. "W. Cather …
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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
… 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
… Image Image A Presentation at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley Special Events Saturday, Dec … which receives generous support from the Marion Park Lewis Foundation. Andrew Jewell , a highly respected Willa Cather … Virginia, contact Ann Romines at annrom3@verizon.net About Willa Cather's Virginia Willa Cather’s Virginia is …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … author’s 150th birthday. The site closed on August 15, 2022 to facilitate the first comprehensive … interpretation; a climate control system and a new roof and foundation. Enclosure of the attic space and extensive …
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Willa Cather Biography
… is one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. Seen as a regional … of American literary Modernism has only increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition … Sebastian in Lucy Gayheart , Cather was herself "nearing fifty" (78) and after her own struggle with One of Ours …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… and is buried near a crossroads. Cather, on whom almost nothing was lost, will later use this event in one of her … Nebraska State Journal . Her first regular column appears under the heading “One Way of Putting It.” Silas Garber’s … — Knopf publishes Cather’s only book of essays, Not Under Forty . In the book’s introduction, Cather states that for …
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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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