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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 …
Posted: 08/30/2016
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration

… of English, Emerita), editor of the Scholarly Edition of  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  (2000) and  Willa Cather’s Southern Connections  …
Posted: 03/14/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Celebrating Juneteenth

… the breadbasket of the Confederacy, the bitter divisions of slavery and the Civil War are still evident. Willa Cather told a portion of that story in her 1940 novel,  Sapphira and the Slave Girl,  which was based on the Cathers' own family …
Posted: 06/16/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Governors p. 1  Staff Activities p. 2  Contributors p. 2  Mail Bag p. 3  … p. 1  Staff Activities p. 1  Publications p. 2  Gifts and Mail Bag p. 2  Future Plans p. 2  … Overing, Robert: Willa Cather and Mari Sandoz, Differing Viewpoints of the Early West, 16.4:2 Parkman, Francis, 22.3/4:1 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… has worked to preserve and promote the art, literary, and historical collection relating to the life, time, and work … moved when she was 9 years old. In total, the Willa Cather Historic Site comprises the largest number of national … Second Home in 2011, the Foundation owns four historic sites related to Cather’s life and work, a 608-acre native …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

… Image Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame … nine authors into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Willa Cather is among this prestigious group of seven … Willa Cather (1873-1947) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who first achieved national recognition for …
Posted: 12/29/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner

… about where I lived,” Karr explained. She has also read O Pioneers!  and she has a copy of Sapphira and the Slave Girl … works that inspire her, Karr said, “I love Alexandra in O Pioneers! She’s awesome. She took over after her father’s …
Posted: 09/24/2019
Last Updated: 09/26/2019

Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge

… (1927) October: Shadows on the Rock (1931) November: Lucy Gayheart (1935) December: Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015

"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"

… as in " A Wagner Matinee " or Pauline's career in Lucy Gayheart Wine and/or beer: Vavrika's saloon in " The … as in " A Wagner Matinee " or Pauline's career in Lucy Gayheart Wine and/or beer: Vavrika's saloon in " The …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/16/2014

Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

… Quebec; and in her powerful final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), Cather returned to the Virginia of her …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 09/15/2014

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