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My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration

… St Winchester , VA 22601 United States Willa Cather’s  My Ántonia  solidified her growing esteem as a keen observer of … University, Professor of English, Emerita), editor of the Scholarly Edition of  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  (2000) …
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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 …
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Finding Aids

… William Boone, nd) Box 47 Alicia Blue materials     Brockway Paper Collection Date range:  1880–1987 Bulk dates: … Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great 1880 Wm. Cather Jr. Private Library No. 71 Akins, Zoë Interpretations: A Book of … M. Jack and Jill: A Village Story 1887 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 25 Alcott, Louisa M. Jo's Boys: And How …
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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 … all the more meaningful.  Image Harris (back left) tours Walnut Canyon with David Porter, Bob Thacker, and John … Spring Conference since 1987, and he’s traveled across the country and abroad for International Willa Cather Seminars. …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … them. And so I wrote O Pioneers! .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, … 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

… in American fiction—with Melville, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Ellison, Bellow, Morrison.” Yes, though Cather deserves to precede Hemingway on this list. Concluding her fine study of Willa … Cather. On April 24, 1947, Cather died from cancer. A private funeral was held in New York, and a memorial service …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Cather Week at Union College  AUTHOR: Deborah Leonard-Lethbridge p. 17  WLA Meets in Denver p. 18  TITLE: In Pursuit … Ántonia p. 45  Four Cather letters received from Alice Woodbridge p. 46  James Work calls for quotations from Death … p. 57  TITLE: Liminality in Willa Cather's Alexander's Bridge and The Professor’s House  AUTHOR: Mary Chinery, …
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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"

… of food and drink in Cather's writing. This day of scholarly papers and discussion will be followed by two days … production: agriculture and the Great Plains ( O Pioneers , My Antonia, One of Ours , etc.) as well as agriculture in … their papers for possible publication in a special expanded edition of The Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. Please …
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