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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 … for download. Betty Kort Collection Date range:  1762-1973 Bulk dates:  1918-1943 Finding Aid created by Tracy … Miner Sherwood. Microfilm roll of Day by Day with the Utah Pioneers, 1847 . Language: The material is in English Access …
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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

… Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation efforts As American author Willa Cather’s 150th was celebrated in 2023, her birth home, a rural … remains a testament to the humble, rural origins of a great writer who, toward the end of her life, struggled to …
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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

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 … the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. Events took place across the country throughout 2023-2024 to honor and …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … with the best in American fiction—with Melville, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Ellison, Bellow, … Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis (2021) . Debates among close readers of Cather …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … town of Red Cloud are officially organized. 1872  — Charles Cather and Mary Virginia Boak marry on December 5 at the … brother Roscoe Cather is born. 1879  — Railroad begins operating in Red Cloud. 1880  — Willa Cather’s second oldest …
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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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