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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
… Wedding Anniversary from Willa Cather December 1923 My Ántonia BK-50-306 Willa Cather 1918 1st printing Elsie … of "Spanish Johnny" and "The Swedish Monther" pasted in My Ántonia BK-50-320 Willa Cather` 1918 association copy "To … Toho University Goichi Fukui 1979 Article Tx-50-4000-F32 "Remembering Willa Cather" in Woman's Press Lorna R. R. …
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Through Darkness to Light
… Leading to Another Conductor’s House, 2013 Photographs Along the Underground Railroad Art Gallery Tuesday, Feb 10 - Sunday, Mar 15, 2026 | … 1865. They moved in constant fear of being killed or recaptured, returned, and beaten as an example of what would happen …
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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
… 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
… 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 … 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost … canonical American writers, one to be counted with the greats in a period characterized by singularities. When … and its availability to Fitzgerald as he wrote The Great Gatsby is among the great instances of one novelist …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… it is only a coincidence that passages in his book The Great Gatsby closely resemble a passage in Cather’s A Lost Lady … stipulates this in her will. 1935 — In the midst of the Great Depression, Cather, who is used to helping her friends …
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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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