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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 … Virginia, is scheduled for April 7, 2018, at 2 p.m.  “ My Ántonia : New Readings for a Centennial Celebration” opens new opportunities for understanding  My Ántonia  as a product of its times and also an …
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Finding Aids

… objects that belonged to the Cather family.  Click here to explore individual objects in the collection! For a broad … Tucker, 2015 Copyright: National Willa Cather Center Extent:  Two boxes Abstract:  The Betty Kort Collection was donated by …
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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… were all taken, so I looked and said, ‘Well, I did read My Ántonia a few years ago and liked it a lot,’” Harris … Willa Cather Review ,  Cather Studies , and editing the scholarly edition of  One of Ours.  “She was a first-rate …
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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 … Willa Cather, an author who explored both the meaning and place of gender roles, now represents Nebraska at our … —Watch a recording of the ceremony and scroll down for a gallery of images and more information— The Congressional …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but … other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… p. 1  Conference Schedule p. 1  A Cornish Childhood p. 2  Gallery Holds "Feelings": Four Lucy Gayheart Paintings by … Cather Southwick) Gives Cather Portrait to Sheldon Art Gallery p. 67  … as George Washington Headquarters staff, 23.4:1 Guide Rock Signal, 22.2:4 Guilbert, Yvette: Cather on, 21.3:3 Gurko, …
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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"

… supper based on Cather's Nebraska story, " The Bohemian Girl . " O Pioneers! and " The Bohemian Girl " will be the … as agriculture in other regions, as in Shadows on the Rock, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Death Comes for the Archbishop Cookbooks (The …
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