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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 …
Posted: 08/22/2017
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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

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

… 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  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

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 …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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: 12/29/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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 …
Posted: 09/24/2019
Last Updated: 09/26/2019

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 …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015

"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 …
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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