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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… tours on December 7, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s 150th birthday. The site closed on August 15, 2022 to … Cather house is vividly described in Cather's novel,  The Song of the Lark , and short stories, “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best …
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Finding Aids

… Webster, Beveridge Weisz, Irene Miner West, Rebecca Wiener, Annie Willard, Elisa Mary Willard, Charles W. Williams, Ruth … Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröck   bookmarks throughout; underlining throughout. "W. Cather … 1948 Document Tx-50-4000-F33 Checks for Anna Sadilek Pavelka from Willa Cather (Copies) Willa Cather 1943-1946 …
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Guided Seasonal Tour

… Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of Red Cloud. More than that, Cather's memorable … (the Czech Republic today) in 1880. While  My Ántonia takes place in the late 19th Century, its themes of enduring … Cather would have used it when traveling to and from her hometown. St. Juliana Falconieri Catholic Church 425 W. 3rd …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Though associated with the Great Plains, American author Willa Cather spent much of her childhood in Frederick … of the renowned writer's sesquicentennial with the National Willa Cather Center. Suggested donations of what you can pay … respected Willa Cather scholar, is currently writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The Selected Letters …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… of sculpture at Creighton University in Omaha, was selected from over seventy artists to create the Willa … of Virginia, among others, many of her most well-known stories are about Nebraska and its people. I hope her … Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members Andrew Jewell and Melissa Homestead praised Cather's selection as a representative of …
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Historic Sites

… dedicated to an American author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the … to sixteen. The house is described in detail in the short stories “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best Years,” and … Cather’s attic bedroom retains the wallpaper she selected while she worked in Dr. Henry Cook's drugstore. In …
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Willa Cather Biography

… P. Stout’s Cather Among the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative … precluded by a proviso in Cather’s will. But The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (2013), edited by Andrew … an explosion, a pest" (Politics 7), listened to these stories and stockpiled the details, not knowing the use she …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail

… the Archives: Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa Cather’s letters, but to many of the … family struggled to survive, was the author of hundreds of stories and poems, the proceeds of which helped to keep the … Collection Kate M. Cleary: a Literary Biography with Selected Works , by Susanne George-Bloomfield …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of … Cather's Early Works p. 2  TITLE: A Note on The White Bear Stories  AUTHOR: Mildred R. Bennett p. 4  … 45 Cather as "Singing Novelist", Looking Toward a Scholarly Collected Poems p. 46 Call for Papers: Food, Drink, and …
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Meet Joanna Blitch: Illustrator of Special Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa

… Art in Winston-Salem. Those paintings, and that preserved home, gave me lots of vital clues about how people in … visual images. Cather writes with very concrete details of place and time—carriages, streets, furniture. She gives you … the clothes they wear and the art they have in their homes. Her writing also utilizes very cinematic, dramatic …
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