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My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration

… opens new opportunities for understanding  My Ántonia  as a product of its times and also an enlightening commentary on …
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Serena's Album

… these people’s pasts and the trajectories of their lives, becomes also a document of historical sweep and almost … on the title page, the album’s cover title Mental Portraits becomes The Mental Portrait Album . The epigraph credited to … secretary before his marriage and would go on to be a member of the Nebraska Legislature. 14-15 Mrs. R. N. Merriam …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related to the life and works of Pulitzer …
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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… Gift Inspired by Decades of Rich Cather Experiences October 15, 2025 Willa Cather may not have been Richard … kind of creativity is fascinating and very rare. And she does this book after book after book,” Harris said. Harris, … Those experiences are certainly one of the many positive things in my life,” Harris said. Harris’s latest interest …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… them. And so I wrote O Pioneers! .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, … who have volunteered their services for the past three years to bring the unveiling of the statue to … incorporated. These include a turquoise jacket that was a gift to Cather from her editors, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather: A Literary Life  had each appeared in 1987; about that time too the era’s leading Cather critic, the … when his magazine was having difficulties with its staff in 1906, to offer her a job and bring her to New York. … that transformed her career. Building upon her solid foundation as an energetic journalist in Lincoln and …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … 16.2  Spring 1972  LITERARY ISSUE Editor: Bernice Slote  TITLE: Willa Cather … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip …
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Antonia's Accent

… over the first syllable in her memorable character's name — Ántonia — to indicate the greater stress that syllable would … the accent in our references to the character or to My Antonia. Some of these visitors will, with justification, … a debate we're quite willing to conduct. As readers of the Scholarly Edition of the novel will know: "In Czech the name …
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"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"

… Image "Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing" July 23, 2009 The 2010 Willa Cather Spring … drink in Willa Cather's writing, based in Cather's "home town" of Red Cloud and the surrounding countryside. The … with Cather scholars, historians, and cooks; kitchen tours at Cather historic sites, with samplings of …
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