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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 collections of materials related … 1880   Document TEX-250-391-053 Financial Agreements, Clark Cather and George P. Cather   1878-1882   Document … Cordially yours, Willa Cather Dust jacket very good   The Song of the Lark BK-50-308 Willa Cather 1915 1st printing …
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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

… Railroad formed in Nebraska and emphasizes specific sites where escaping enslaved persons most likely found … escaped to freedom and traveled roughly 2,000 miles to visit actual sites, cities, and places that freedom-seekers … Endowment. About the Speaker Bill Hayes grew up in the historic town of Brownville. He received his B.A. in History …
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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 … rural origins of a great writer who, toward the end of her life, struggled to write the story of her home state.  …
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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 … her brilliant young mind to imagine the whole world. Cather later referred to it as her “rose-bower,” and she occupied … 150 Years of Willa Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the …
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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 … will change her birth year to 1876 and her name to “Willa” later.  Silas Garber is elected governor of Nebraska. 1874 … lost, will later use this event in one of her most famous novels,  My Antonia . 1882  — Red Cloud becomes a division …
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Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center Image Willa Cather, 9, taken in Virginia before moving to Nebraska …
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