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Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights

… from the Archive: April Twilights April 8, 2025 Though Willa Cather is known worldwide as a novelist, her first published … helped early Cather researchers to identify some of her writing that was published under a pseudonym. These …
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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 …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… NE Oct 19 — Willa Cather, Wales, Wymore, and the World , Great Plains Welsh Heritage Centre, Wymore, NE: 2:00 p.m. CT, … Cultural Park , Tivoli, NY Oct 22 — Willa Cather: Life & Literature , 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET • Explore the intersections …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short Biography of Willa Cather 1873–1947 Willa Cather was born in Back Creek … Quebec, and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, among others. Cather’s literature found national and international …
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Meet our 2024 Humanities Interns!

… Pacholski (left) and Sophie Ryan at our 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference in June Meet our 2024 Humanities … at the National Willa Cather Center offers an experiential learning opportunity for an advanced undergraduate … Since arriving in Red Cloud, Sarah has been a very avid prairie goer, and it's been their writing sanctuary when on …
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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 …
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Annotations from the Archive: Association Copies

… Image Willa Cather's name inside Pilgrim's Progress Annotations from the … Family Library, which will be discussed at length in a later Annotations , contains a number of books personally … to a Cather book’s content Because six of Cather's twelve novels and many short stories utilized people, places, and …
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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 …
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Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration

… The Library is pleased to partner with the National Willa Cather Center to commemorate Willa Cather’s 150th birthday. … a National Historic Landmark. Guided town, country, and prairie tours provide visitors with an immersive place-based … and seminars that spur new research and scholarship.  Learn more at  willacather.org . Deanne Lorette (Reader) …
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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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