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17th International Willa Cather Seminar
… in the hamlet of Back Creek Valley (now Gore), her Grandmother Boak's house where she was born, the Mill House (built by her great-great-grandfather in the 1740s), where her Seibert grandparents ran the mill from 1830s-1870s, and the …
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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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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 …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… Coverage p. 3 Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4 Mailing of Newsletter p. 4 … of Grace AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13 John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15 WCPM announces 1985 trip … to the WCPM p. 49 Cather and Quilts: Call for Entries p. 52 Spring Festival p. 52 …
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Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published
… Shadows on the Rock (1931), Lucy Gayheart (1935), and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940). Cather died from a cerebral hemorrhage on April …
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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 …
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Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner
… She has also read O Pioneers! and she has a copy of Sapphira and the Slave Girl and the Selected Letters in her stack of books to read …
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Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge
… on the Rock (1931) November: Lucy Gayheart (1935) December: Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) CLICK HERE to purchase one or more of the …
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"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"
… Image "Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing" July 23, 2009 The 2010 Willa Cather Spring … by Professor Susan Meyer of Wellesley College, and a barn dance supper based on Cather's Nebraska story, " The …
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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 …
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