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Willa Cather Childhood Home, Red Cloud, Nebraska. Cather was born in 1873 on her maternal grandmother's farm in the Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia. [18] [19] Her father, Charles Fectigue Cather, [20] descended from a family that had originated in Wales, [21] deriving the Cather surname from Cadair Idris, a Gwynedd mountain.
The exact nature of Willa Cather's part in the compiling and writing of the biography remains, accordingly, a matter for further scholarly investigation. [ 93 ] The "enemies" Stouck refers to are likely Josephine C. Woodbury and Frederick W. Peabody, who did in fact play a significant role in supplying Milmine with much of her material. [ 42 ]
Feb. 16—During her life, Willa Cather was "obsessed with her privacy," biographer Benjamin Taylor says. It was that obsession — an understandable one for a woman who was almost certainly a ...
Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices which are associated with members of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally known as the Christian Science church.
"Paul's Case" is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in McClure's Magazine in 1905 under the title "Paul's Case: A Study in Temperament", which was later shortened. [ 1 ] It also appeared in a collection of Cather's stories, The Troll Garden (1905).
Another example includes Bruce Baker II’s “Nebraska Regionalism in Selected Works of Willa Cather”. [6] Like the other example, this article critiques a multitude of Cather’s works. Baker, however, analyzes O Pioneers! and Cather’s other works based on how they discuss and depict the Nebraskan landscape in their text.
My Ántonia (/ ˈ æ n t ə n i ə / AN-tə-nee-ə) is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather.. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century.
Cather's cousin Grosvenor (G.P. Cather) was born and raised on the farm that adjoined her own family's, and she combined parts of her own personality with Grosvenor's in the character of Claude. Cather explained in a letter to Dorothy Canfield Fisher: [1] We were very much alike, and very different.