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My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration

… St Winchester , VA 22601 United States Willa Cather’s  My Ántonia  solidified her growing esteem as a keen observer of … University, Professor of English, Emerita), editor of the Scholarly Edition of  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  (2000) …
Posted: 03/14/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Serena's Album

… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather was first published in 1951 in The World of … Belle Barclay chooses Yellowstone Park. Designated a national park in 1872 — the first in the United States — …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

…  ____________ Bulk dates:  1878-1921 Finding Aid created by Lucy Koenig and Tracy Sanford Tucker, 2023 Copyright: … Mildred Bennett Collection documents the organizational and scholarly work of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial’s … (Copy pp. 47-72 199-200)     Manuscript Tx-50-4000-F05 Lucy Gayheart  Typescript (Copy pp. 22-118)     Magazine …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… to study Cather on a variety of topics, presenting at conferences and seminars, contributing to the  Willa Cather … 2013 Harris has been a regular attendee at the Willa Cather Spring Conference since 1987, and he’s traveled across the …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… She also holds a writing pen and paper. The Nebraska state flower (goldenrod) and the state bird (Western meadowlark) …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… for Webster County, Nebraska, northwest of Red Cloud. In April 1883, Cather moved with her extended family—mother, … out from Red Cloud to my grandfather's homestead one day in April. I was sitting on the hay in the bottom of a … was then concentrating on poetry—her first book,  April Twilights , appeared from a vanity press in 1903. It was …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … access to specific articles and special features of each issue of the Review since its first publication in 1957. … 1964  Editor: Miriam Mountford  Aim and Interpretation of Catherland p. 1  Plow is a Symbol of Cather Museum p. 1  … p. 3  Cather Garden Dedicated p. 3  New Signs Placed on Country Roads p. 4  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Antonia's Accent

… over the first syllable in her memorable character's name — Ántonia — to indicate the greater stress that syllable would … the accent in our references to the character or to My Antonia. Some of these visitors will, with justification, … a debate we're quite willing to conduct. As readers of the Scholarly Edition of the novel will know: "In Czech the name …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/18/2014

"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"

… College, and a barn dance supper based on Cather's Nebraska story, " The Bohemian Girl . " O Pioneers! and " … and life, and a variety of celebratory events in Cather's Nebraska home town and the surrounding countryside. For … and life, and a variety of celebratory events in Cather's Nebraska home town and the surrounding countryside. For …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/16/2014

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