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Alexander's Bridge

… Image Alexander's Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s first novel about an ambitious … the two women and the lives they represent, in Alexander’s Bridge , Bartley grapples with intense indecision and guilt. …
Posted: 07/15/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023

Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View

… work and instead was finishing up proofreading Alexander's Bridge and beginning a new novel, which would become O …
Posted: 01/02/2026
Last Updated: 01/21/2026

Finding Aids

… and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, … journals, and rare book collections, as well as items belonging to Willa Cather like letters, clothing, jewelry, … to explore individual objects in the collection! For a broad view of the collections, finding aids are available for …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short … language, and sensitive explorations of place. Her life and work still inspire insightful scholarly analysis. … her formative Nebraska experiences into an international literary legacy.  Cather died in 1947, and was laid to rest …
Posted: 05/04/2023
Last Updated: 07/12/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Cather is Nebraska's foremost citizen," wrote author and Nobel Prize-winner Sinclair Lewis. "The United States knows … published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a special issue of  Modern Fiction Studies  on … Red Cloud. The MLA International Bibliography lists almost 1300 publications on Cather and her works appearing since …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … of the Panic of 1893. Blind Boone, a well-known African American pianist, performs at the Red Cloud Opera House. … McClure’s  as  Alexander’s Masquerade . Cather tours the Southwest for the first time while visiting her brother …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Book Club Resources

… your book club; the location where Willa often returned to visit her family and friends.  If your group can’t make it to Red Cloud, we would love to come to you! Take a virtual tour of …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

Bibliography

… Image Bibliography The Writings of Willa Cather   Novels Alexander's Bridge  1912 O Pioneers! …  1932 The Old Beauty and Others  1948 Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912  1965 Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … 16.2  Spring 1972  LITERARY ISSUE Editor: Bernice Slote  TITLE: Willa Cather … by Joel Geyer) p. 4  Sherman Exhibit at Depot (exhibit of Life Magazine photographer David Sherman) p. 4  Death Notice …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… Image Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published January 10, 2012 Fragments from … and honored to have the permission of the Willa Cather Literary Trust to share these glimpses of Cather's last …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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