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Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts

… January 6, 2025, marks another important centenary in Willa Cather's career: the opening of the feature film adaptation … September 13, 1923 ). The local Sunday School Association, later in September 1923, hosted a lecture called "The Menace … books even reach the public. Mrs. Keating reads 3 hundred novels a year! . . . 'Someone asked me today, why I bought …
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

… social themes and their persistent relevancy today. Tell us about your publishing company — Ponto Edita is a new, small and independent publishing house in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. We started in … who are out of Brazil, I think the easiest way would be to contact us through e-mail (contato@pontoedita.com) or social …
Posted: 07/01/2019
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… include Alexander’s Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A Lost Lady (1923), all of which … well regarded works include The Professor’s House (1925), My Mortal Enemy (1926), Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Shadows on …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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 … survived to adulthood. Addie was a widow by 1920 and in her later years worked as a milliner. She eventually lived in … was an American humorist whose popular Samantha Allen novels were presented as if written by the heroine’s foolish …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Jeremiah Smith   1793 Ephemera OBJ-50-1000-008 "The Truth About Horace" Poem Written Inside Book Cover Eugene Field   … Checks from City National Bank, Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton …
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

… enjoys a beverage with Bob Thacker & Mark Madigan at the Cather Seminar in Paris in 2007 Richard Harris Plans for a … assignment turned into an eighty-page paper that he later developed into a dissertation on characterization in Cather’s novels. Since then, he’s continued to study Cather on a …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not exaggerating, Carrie, when I confide to you that I would rather go home to Red Cloud than to any of the beautiful cities in Europe where I used to love to go. " —Willa Cather, in a letter to …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

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