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Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts

… 2025 January 6, 2025, marks another important centenary in Willa Cather's career: the opening of the feature film … and literary executor Edith Lewis were dead.  In 1924, Alfred Knopf, Cather's publisher, sold the film rights to A … Memorial board member Lucia Woods had the opportunity to visit the movie's star at her home. Woods hoped to glean …
Posted: 01/06/2025
Last Updated: 01/21/2025

A Lost Lady

… Image Vintage cover of A Lost Lady A Lost Lady Book Club Resources "If her image flashed into his …
Posted: 05/03/2023
Last Updated: 07/14/2023

"A Lost Lady" Published in Brazil in Portuguese

… Image "A Lost Lady" Published in Brazil in Portuguese July 1, 2019 … courses. Their inaugural June 2019 publication of A Lost Lady in Brazilian Portuguese, Uma mulher perdida , has …
Posted: 07/01/2019
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… wrote prolifically; her later works include Alexander’s Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not … a letter to childhood friend, Carrie Miner Sherwood [April 29, 1945] Visitors to Red Cloud are invited to book a stay … a shared half bathroom. Named after the Nebraska town in  O Pioneers! , the room is above the former kitchen with its …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2026

Welcome New Board Members

… at age twelve when his grandmother loaned him a copy of  A Lost Lady . “I grew up in the midst of Catherland and, as a …
Posted: 04/02/2026
Last Updated: 04/02/2026

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 … theorizes that Serena came to Red Cloud to continue her studies with J. F. Curran, the very popular Superior High … photographer, of German parentage. He appears in an 1899 volume entitled Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

… for download. Betty Kort Collection Date range:  1762-1973 Bulk dates:  1918-1943 Finding Aid created by Tracy … genealogy Burlington & Missouri River Railroad journals building records financial instruments Related Materials:   … materials Notes on WCPM museum displays, historic sites, tour scripts Loose clippings about Cather, WCPM, Red Cloud …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Robert H. Wolfe

… began at age twelve when his grandmother loaned him A Lost Lady . He has since read all of Cather’s novels and numerous works about her, but repeatedly returns to A Lost Lady for its exceptional style and language.   "I grew …
Posted: 01/07/2026
Last Updated: 03/05/2026

Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… from what she’s read and heard. For example, in  A Lost Lady —Harris’ favorite Cather novel—Cather references Bible …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

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