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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, which is considered one of her best works.. 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 ...
When Annie was a young woman, she - like Antonia in the novel - returned to Webster County, pregnant, after being left by a railroad employee, James William Murphy. Back in her hometown, she gave birth to her daughter in 1892. In 1896, she married John Pavelka (Cuzak in the novel), with whom she had twelve children, three of whom died in childhood.
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My Antonia is a 1995 American drama television film directed by Joseph Sargent and written and produced by Victoria Riskin, based on the 1918 novel of the same name by Willa Cather. It stars Jason Robards , Eva Marie Saint , and Neil Patrick Harris .
Antonia is an Italian television series directed by Chiara Malta. Produced by Groenlandia, Fidelio, in association with Rai Fiction and starring Chiara Martegiani, Valerio Mastandrea , Barbara Chichiarelli , Emanuele Linfatti , Leonardo Lidi and Chiara Caselli . [ 1 ]
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman at IMDb; Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman at the TCM Movie Database; Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films; Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 ISBN 0826429777, pages 707-709
Sinclair Lewis praised the Nebraska portion of the work—"truth does guide the first part of the book"—but wrote that in the second half Cather had produced a "romance of violinists gallantly turned soldiers, of self-sacrificing sergeants, sallies at midnight, and all the commonplaces of ordinary war novels". [3] H. L.
Maria Antonia may refer to: Maria Antonia of Austria (1669–1692) daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and Margarita Teresa of Austria Maria Antonia Pereira (1700–1760), Spanish founder of the carmelite convent of Santiago de Compostela .