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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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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… nine years old, her family moved to rural Webster County, Nebraska, and later to the town of Red Cloud, where she lived until attending college at the University of Nebraska. Cather’s career began in Pittsburgh, where she … While six of Cather’s novels were inspired by her Nebraska experiences, her writing spans settings that also …
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Willa Cather Biography

… had been in the area since the 1700s, and Back Creek, near Winchester west of Washington, was a place deeply affected by the Civil War. It was a border area, one of the counties in Virginia …
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Willa on Wednesday at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home

… in thirty years—from our online bookstore! [University of Nebraska Press: 2019] The Mount  is a turn-of-the-century …
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Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library

… Hampshire, join us for a sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured … of Cather's life and times will explore her turbulent biography and uniquely American voice. Sprinkled into the … scholar at UCLA and Vice President of the National Willa Cather Center Board of Governors. As Willa Cather …
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Reading Willa Cather: A 150th Birthday Celebration

… Image Willa Cather wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett, c. … HERE Join us for this sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured … overview of her life and work will explore her turbulent biography and uniquely American voice. Sprinkled into the …
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National Willa Cather Center Celebrates National Poetry Month

… Poet Laureate Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker Matt Mason, Nebraska State Poet Rosanne Cash, acclaimed singer and … of Oxford Brookes University Poetry Centre Kent Pavelka, Nebraska sports broadcaster and grandson of Anna Pavelka …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Fisher New York Herald Tribune 1933 Clipping TX-50-1000-054 Review of  April Twilights Pittsburg Gazette 1903 Clipping …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia

… Offered to Communities and Organizations September 4, 2024 Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles … understand shaped the world we are living in. Because of Willa Cather’s intensity of observation, My Ántonia remains … Blind d’Arnault. It utilizes archival imagery and artist biography to inspire patrons to grapple with larger …
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The National Endowment for the Arts Big Read: My Ántonia

… Events Friday, Oct 4, 2024 | All day CT the National Willa Cather Center 425 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 … citizen and student pricing is available for the tour. Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles … Blind d’Arnault. It utilizes archival imagery and artist biography to inspire patrons to grapple with larger …
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