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New! Cather Studies 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux

… Image New! Cather Studies 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux August 21, … Beginning with a prologue locating Cather’s position, this volume of Cather Studies offers three sets of related …
Posted: 08/21/2017
Last Updated: 09/27/2017

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … itself. As Skaggs also maintained, Cather "fashioned fictions of such intricacy and resonating depth that all of … from cancer. A private funeral was held in New York, and a memorial service was conducted at Grace Episcopal Church in …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… are listed with the corresponding issue in PDF format. Summer 1957 to Current 1.1  Summer 1957  FIRST ISSUE  … 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 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Serena's Album

… two more would be born in the next several years. The tiny settlement known as “Elora” — Mrs. Keifer gives it as her … of a town, established in 1882 by Mr. Keifer and another settler, and discontinued in 1891. Much of the nearby land … frequently advocated reform). Extravagant bustles and corseting were still common in the mid-1880s, but Belle Barclay …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief

… we received the last edition of the Red Cloud Chief , a newspaper that had a 150-year history. It was Webster … local history or, in our case, exploring the life of Willa Cather. We know that Willa Cather held a warm place in her … Company K Guard unit, I wanted to see what I could find out about Seb,” Tucker said. Image Seb Johnson serving in …
Posted: 09/01/2024
Last Updated: 09/04/2024

The Passing Show

… Twelve Stories by American Women Writers , a more inclusive update to their Four Stories volume, is forthcoming from …
Posted: 05/09/2024
Last Updated: 05/14/2024

Pavelka Farmstead

Pavelka Farmstead “We turned to leave the cave; Antonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children waited. We were standing outside talking, when they all came running up the steps together, big and little, tow heads and gold heads and brown, and …
Posted: 12/05/2014
Last Updated: 09/08/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection in the Special Collections and Archives at the National Willa Cather Center that relate … out of life. At first I rebelled at some things, I had to learn that every editor is not a Mr. Gere or a Mr. Jones. …
Posted: 05/19/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Newly Appointed Board Members Announced

… community as I’ve experienced it at conferences, in the archives, on tours of Red Cloud, and I look forward to …
Posted: 01/09/2018
Last Updated: 01/09/2018

Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

Image Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium preceding it will be focused on Cather the poet, on poetry, and on today's poets from the Great Plains region. …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015

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