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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 of materials related … Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, historic photographs, art and decorative arts, journals, and rare … Pen holder Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-1 Small metal purse Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-2 …
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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
… Nebraska historian Bill Hayes discusses the issue of slavery in the U.S. during the 1850s and the controversy … their journey north to freedom. Willa Cather's final novel Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) depicts a similarly harrowing journey, basing …
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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund
Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation efforts As American author Willa Cather’s 150th was celebrated in 2023, her birth home, a rural …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration
… Though associated with the Great Plains, American author Willa Cather spent much of her childhood in Frederick … of the renowned writer's sesquicentennial with the National Willa Cather Center. Suggested donations of what you can pay … respected Willa Cather scholar, is currently writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The Selected Letters …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn … The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most popular writings, …
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Willa Cather Biography
… George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic portrait … 1921. Rinehart-Marsden Studios. Today Willa Cather is one of the most important American novelists of the first … matriculation requirements.) Having just arrived from a small town, she took full advantage of the capital's …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… for the character Thea Kronborg in her next novel, The Song of the Lark . Cather visits Nebraska. 1915 — Cather publishes The Song of the Lark . Cather visits Mesa Verde for the first …
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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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