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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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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… for My Ántonia , Cather received the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . She won the William Dean Howells Medal for Death … selected her final resting place and designed her tombstone, which features these memorable words from My Ántonia : …
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Willa Cather Biography

… in Nebraska, Quebec City (with a pre-trip to Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick), Virginia, Vermont, France (Paris and … borne of Cather's ability to create on her pages intimate portraits of characters understood in relation to their … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but …
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Willa on Wednesday at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home

… Image The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home Image Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture Third … , MA 01240 United States PURCHASE TICKETS The National Willa Cather Center is pleased to partner with The Mount , … times. Cipkowski's lecture will explore Cather’s turbulent biography and uniquely American voice, which set a new …
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Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library

… left a portion of her estate to the town of Jaffrey to build the library, noting in her will that it “should … part of a pattern of philanthropists funding public library buildings in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth … many of the historic portraits and is part of the original building. We also house our history books on that floor and …
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Reading Willa Cather: A 150th Birthday Celebration

… Image Willa Cather wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett, c. 1912 At the Tufts Library in Weymouth, MA Special Events Saturday, Oct 28, 2023 | 2 - 4pm Tufts Library 46 … and gradual emergence. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers!, My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House …
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National Willa Cather Center Celebrates National Poetry Month

… Image National Willa Cather Center Celebrates National Poetry Month March … widely recognized that writing poetry represented some of Willa Cather’s earliest literary endeavors. Even after … Cather’s poetry provides clues that help us to define her biography. While socially isolating, Cather fans should …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist October 16 is Ask-An-Archivist Day! October …
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Finding Aids

… Cite as: [item #], Betty Kort Collection. Willa Cather Foundation Collections & Archives at the National Willa … Jeremiah Smith   1793 Ephemera OBJ-50-1000-008 "The Truth About Horace" Poem Written Inside Book Cover Eugene Field   …   Miscellaneous papers  Documents   Pat Phillips Materials Board minutes, conference notes   WCPM Ashtray     Playing …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia

… Image Image NEA Big Read: My Ántonia Programs Offered to Communities and Organizations September 4, 2024 Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the …
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