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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… (1915): “The ceiling was so low that a grown person could reach it with the palm of the hand, and it sloped down on …
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Serena's Album

… two more would be born in the next several years. The tiny settlement known as “Elora” — Mrs. Keifer gives it as … as Cather does. Her preferred journey is to Amboy, a tiny Webster County settlement just east of Red Cloud …
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Finding Aids

… to Willa Cather like letters, clothing, jewelry, artwork, manuscripts, address books, journals, and sales ledgers for … Honorary Degree     Watercolor sketch TX-50-1000-015 Grand Manan Watercolor Edith Lewis   Photograph OBJ-50-1000-016 … in France unknown circa 1920 Photograph PHO-50-1000-031 Woman at Grand Manan unknown   Photograph PHO-50-1000-032 …
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Guided Seasonal Tour

… Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for their … Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of Red Cloud. More than that, Cather's memorable … success as a farm family, it also symbolizes the immigrant stories and rich multiculturalism that shaped the Great …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (Knopf, 2013), and of the … Cather’s Virginia is based in Gore, Virginia, the first home of one of America’s greatest writers. Pulitzer … the complexities of her Virginia birthplace—including the stories of those who inhabited what she described as “that …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career … literature and correspondence remain the subject of scholarly inquiry. Her writing has been translated into more …
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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

… House , and  Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny enclave of French culture that was Quebec City at the … of a more penetrating sense of human life and human destiny. Willa Cather read and thought a great deal during …
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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

… Receives Nomination p. 3  Memorial Archives Need Continual Update p. 3  Conference Theme--Shadows on the Rock p. 3  … Tom and Blind Boone to be played by Karen Gullickson p. 2  Update on Karen Hartmann, first winner of Norma Ross Walter … Overing, Robert: Willa Cather and Mari Sandoz, Differing Viewpoints of the Early West, 16.4:2 Parkman, Francis, 22.3/4:1 …
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