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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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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … its stabilization and preservation. In October 2025, she donated the birthplace property to Willa Cather's Virginia , … and promotion of Cather's Virginia legacy. The Willa Cather Foundation is proud to be working collaboratively with Willa …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of …
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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 … restoration in more than fifty years.  A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa Cather Childhood … The exterior was repainted in the familiar brown-toned historic palette, reconfirmed after a careful paint …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost … a succession of other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — … many immigrants in the region and listening to their stories. 1884  — Willa Cather and her family move into town. … depressing stay in Red Cloud, Cather accepts a job in Pittsburgh as the editor of the  Home Monthly . She begins …
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Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center Image Willa Cather, 9, taken in Virginia … history of Willa Cather, Olsen will detail how the writer’s early years in Frederick County, Virginia, and formative years in Nebraska influenced the novels   Sapphira and the Slave Girl   and   My Ántonia . …
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Bibliography

… Image Bibliography The Writings of Willa Cather   Novels Alexander's Bridge  1912 O Pioneers! … First Principles and Critical Statements   1967 The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902  1970 …
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Cather Book Club: In This Our Life

… and the wrongs done to an African-American boy. Cather’s Sapphira and the Slave Girl, which is the Cather family’s own antebellum story of …
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