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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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Through Darkness to Light
… Image Decision to Leave, Magnolia Plantation on the Cane River, Louisiana, 2013 Image Hunter’s Bottom, Just Across the Ohio River; Outside of Madison, Indiana, 2014 Image Hidden Passage, …
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Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains
… Image Nebraska's Underground Railroad Special Events Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 | 1 - 2pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States Enjoy …
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Finding Aids
… Mildred Bennett Collection documents the organizational and scholarly work of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial’s … 1884 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 36 Buchan, John A Lost Lady of Old Years 1899 Willa Cather, Pittsburg Pa. Includes …
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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund
… War Reconstruction, young Willa was surrounded by family members who, in her father’s family, had supported the Union …
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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 historic site tour … has become known as one of America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings …
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Willa Cather Biography
… in American fiction—with Melville, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Ellison, Bellow, Morrison.” Yes, though Cather deserves to precede Hemingway on this list. Concluding her fine study of Willa … Cather. On April 24, 1947, Cather died from cancer. A private funeral was held in New York, and a memorial service …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four … in part on events in the lives of Silas Garber and his wife Lyra Garber, receives serial publication in Century at …
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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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