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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

… Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, historic photographs, art and decorative arts, journals, and rare … 3 ⅛ wide x 5 ⅜ tall x ⅝” deep. Two black and white photographs. Printed and handwritten ephemera. Container … Nebraska authors, and authors mentioned by Cather by name. Photographs in the collection document 1950s Webster County …
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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

… Though associated with the Great Plains, American author Willa Cather spent much of her childhood in Frederick County, … which receives generous support from the Marion Park Lewis Foundation. Andrew Jewell , a highly respected Willa Cather …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… moved to Nebraska from Virginia in 1883. Her final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … readings that there existed a growing body of evidence to support such a claim: Sharon O'Brien's influential … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … later use this event in one of her most famous novels,  My Antonia . 1882  — Red Cloud becomes a division point for …
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Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… influenced the novels   Sapphira and the Slave Girl   and   My Ántonia . MSV members: $5; all others: $10. Please …
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Bibliography

…  1923 The Professor's House  1925 My Mortal Enemy  1926 Death Comes for the Archbishop  1927 Shadows on the Rock  1931 Lucy Gayheart …
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My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration

… of English, Emerita), editor of the Scholarly Edition of  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  (2000) and  Willa Cather’s Southern Connections  …
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