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Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights

… Image Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights April 8, 2025 Though Willa Cather is known worldwide as a …
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Finding Aids

… Boris Hambourg, ? Heinemann, William, 1863-1920 Hess, Julia Myra Hibben, Jenny Davidson Hibben, John Grier Hills, Laura … Mildred Bennett Collection documents the organizational and scholarly work of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial’s … 1899 To Mother, March 21, 1900 W.S.C. Cather, Willa My Ántonia 1918 n/a Catallus Selected Poems of Catallus 1910 …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… for the Archbishop • Virtual Oct 20 — UNL Opera presents O Pioneers! , 7:00 p.m. • Red Cloud Opera House, Red Cloud, NE …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… nine years old, her family moved to rural Webster County, Nebraska, and later to the town of Red Cloud, where she lived until attending college at the University of Nebraska. Cather’s career began in Pittsburgh, where she … While six of Cather’s novels were inspired by her Nebraska experiences, her writing spans settings that also …
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Meet our 2024 Humanities Interns!

… a graduate student in the humanities at the University of Nebraska (UNL, UNK, or UNO). It is funded through a collaboration between the University of Nebraska and the National Willa Cather Center. SARAH PACHOLSKI  (they/them) was born in Omaha, Nebraska and raised in Blair, Nebraska. Growing up they …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but there are a succession of … she offered this description, Cather had just published  O Pioneers! , her first and far more literary novel focused on … year in Nebraska. As she made clear repeatedly after  O Pioneers!  was published, she had been afforded a rare …
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Annotations from the Archive: Association Copies

… Image Willa Cather's name inside Pilgrim's Progress Annotations … Because six of Cather's twelve novels and many short stories utilized people, places, and events from Red Cloud's early days, many of our collected books could be included in this category. We have, …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Cloud. 1880  — Willa Cather’s second oldest brother Douglass Cather is born. 1881  — Willa Cather’s oldest sister … of short stories,  The Troll Garden , is published by S. S. McClure. 1906  — Cather accepts a job at  McClure’s  in New … , appears in print. Cather agrees to write S. S. McClure’s autobiography. When finished,  My Autobiography  runs under …
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Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration

… well as the publication centenaries for  A Lost Lady  and  April Twilights and Other Poems.  The celebration will include …
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The Bel Canto Duo: Four Cather Tableaux

… A Lost Lady , "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," April Twilights and Other Poems, and One of Ours , publications …
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