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Cather Book Club: Sapphira and the Slave Girl

Image Thursday, Apr 21, 2016 | 4 - 6pm Cherry Corner Estates or Auld Public Library 537 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States On April 21 the Willa Cather Book Club will meet to discuss Sapphira and the Slave Girl . There are two meeting …
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Through Darkness to Light

… Image Decision to Leave, Magnolia Plantation on the Cane River, Louisiana, 2013 Image Hunter’s Bottom, Just Across the Ohio River; Outside of Madison, …
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Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

… Image Nebraska's Underground Railroad Special Events Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 | 1 - 2pm CT The National Willa …
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Finding Aids

… Jeremiah Smith   1793 Ephemera OBJ-50-1000-008 "The Truth About Horace" Poem Written Inside Book Cover Eugene Field   … Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton Honorary Degree     Watercolor sketch … back of the book contain lists of travel items and notes about offices and translators. Subject Terms Genre: Address …
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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… her life, struggled to write the story of her home state.  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  (1940) is of increasing interest to contemporary …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Romney and Winchester.” Indeed, Cather’s final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), is set near her birthplace just a few miles …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… moved to Nebraska from Virginia in 1883. Her final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. …
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Willa Cather Biography

… critical monographs have been published which have changed just how Cather is seen and understood. Two of the most … among close readers of Cather show no sign of abating any time soon. Beyond such publication, seminars and … a countryside and a people. That relationship, he knew, cannot be gone after and found; it must be long and deliberate, …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… and is buried near a crossroads. Cather, on whom almost nothing was lost, will later use this event in one of her … train with the rest of the family to Red Cloud. Also accompanying the family are Rachel Boak, the hired girl Marjorie … the Farmers and Merchants Bank is completed. It will close just four years later, a victim of the Panic of 1893. Blind …
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Willa Cather: Life & Literature

Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center Image Willa Cather, 9, taken in Virginia before moving to Nebraska Image Special presentation by Ashley Olson Special Events Sunday, Oct 22, 2023 | 3 - 4pm Museum of the Shenandoah …
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