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Alexander's Bridge
… Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s first novel about an ambitious engineer, Bartley … at a book, Alexander’s Bridge is a necessary look into her early writing. Told from a more Eurocentric view than her later novels, this is Cather’s first attempt at long-form fiction …
Posted: 07/15/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023
Music in Willa Cather's Writing
… Image Music in Willa Cather's Writing While not a musician herself, Willa Cather … the leading musicians of her day, and wrote them into her novels, short stories, and reviews. It's inevitable, maybe, … of Thea's success full circle. The diversity Kronborg’s early life emerge with these closing numbers. Playlist IV …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/09/2023
Visions Seen in the Air: An Invitational Exhibit
… Image "The Early Hours" Image Carved in Linden Image "Taking Flight" … in Red Cloud will be a celebration of 150 years of Willa Cather’s life and work. As part of that celebration, we will … the 100th publication anniversary of one of her greatest novels: A Lost Lady . In conjunction, we will host an …
Posted: 04/24/2023
Last Updated: 06/14/2023
Visions Seen in the Air
… contributing artists to contemplate the essence of Willa Cather’s home town and to convey, through any medium, that … sense of place and feeling of home that would later inspire Cather as she created her six Nebraska novels. Exhibiting artists include: Shane Booth, Susan Hart, …
Posted: 05/31/2023
Last Updated: 05/31/2023
Organization History
… Cather is still widely used by scholars as a valuable source work for Cather’s early years. In the early 1950s, … work; the St. Juliana Catholic Church , of the novel My Ántonia the Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a pair of … and the Pavelka Farmstead, the rural setting for the final scenes in My Ántonia . A pivotal event was the 1962 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
Annotations from the Archive
… Annotations from the Archive The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … address books, journals, and sales ledgers for her novels, as well as hundreds of objects that belonged to the … houses research notes and first-person source materials for early Cather studies The Blanche Cather Ray Collection, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Plain Views: Pastel and Photography
… women and children seek to portray the stark existence of early Nebraska settlers as well as reveal the deep-rooted … of these Nebraska settlers are echoed in the enduring novels of Willa Cather. Cather observed in O Pioneers! , “We come and go, …
Posted: 08/12/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Catherland by Shane Booth
… fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.” – Willa Cather Using his 1867 studio camera and Voightlander lens to … Willa Cather grew up, and where she based several of her novels describing life on the prairie in the early 19th century. My photographs evoke a sense of place, …
Posted: 01/20/2017
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections
… materials pulled from the collections of the National Willa Cather Center and the Webster County Historical Museum. Our … materials that were central to our understanding of early Red Cloud and Willa Cather’s adolescence here, as well … as her use of prototypes and historical settings in her novels; many of the photos and memorabilia on display were …
Posted: 02/25/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Meet our 2022 Summer Humanities Interns!
… help educators teach students about Willa Cather. The new educational resources our interns create will cover topics related to … medieval and early modern history, and he looks forward to learning and immersing in Willa Cather’s literature and ties …
Posted: 06/15/2022
Last Updated: 07/19/2022