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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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My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration

… St Winchester , VA 22601 United States Willa Cather’s  My Ántonia  solidified her growing esteem as a keen observer of … University, Professor of English, Emerita), editor of the Scholarly Edition of  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  (2000) …
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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

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … Miriam Mountford  Aims of the WCPM p. 1  Staff p. 1  Museum News and Donors p. 1  Interesting Visitors p. 2  Nebraska … for Young People p. 3  World Wide Interest and Publications about Willa Cather p. 3  Looking to the Future p. 3  …
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Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… wrote prolifically; her later works include Alexander’s Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A …
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Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

… Image Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame … buildings devoted to one author in the United States. Both town and country tours of sites related to Cather are available; for more …
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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"

… of food and drink in Cather's writing. This day of scholarly papers and discussion will be followed by two days … production: agriculture and the Great Plains ( O Pioneers , My Antonia, One of Ours , etc.) as well as agriculture in … their papers for possible publication in a special expanded edition of The Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. Please …
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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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