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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

… Checks from City National Bank, Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton Honorary Degree     … TX-50-1000-041 Photocopies of 28 and 29               Newspaper TX-50-1000-043 Charles F. Cather Obituary …
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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

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … uses for the site, including educational programs, literary events, and community gatherings that honor Willa Cather’s … contribute to the community at large.”  The Willa Cather Foundation is proud to be working collaboratively with Willa …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Romney and Winchester.” Indeed, Cather’s final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), is set near her birthplace just a few miles …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about … Willa Cather Childhood Home reopened for tours on December 7, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s 150th birthday. The … and extensive repairs to the windows and doors sealed the building envelope, which will limit exposure to the elements …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through each volume’s extensive apparatus, … until early 1901, when she accepted a high school teaching position in Pittsburgh, later moving across the …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — … Cather visits Red Cloud. 1901  — Cather takes a job teaching high school students in Pittsburgh and moves into … Lady , Cather vows not to allow any more adaptations of her works. She later stipulates this in her will. 1935  — In the …
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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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