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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.
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.
The Willa Cather House, also known as the Willa Cather Childhood Home, is a historic house museum at 241 North Cedar Street in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Built in 1878, it is the house where author Willa Cather (1873–1947) grew up. Cather's descriptions of frontier life in Nebraska were an important part of literary canon of the early 20th century.
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.
One of Ours is a 1922 novel by Willa Cather that won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native in the first decades of the 20th century. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, he is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood.
Pavelka farmstead in rural Webster County, Nebraska, setting of "Neighbour Rosicky" [1] "Neighbour Rosicky" is a short story by Willa Cather. It appeared in the Woman's Home Companion in 1930, under the title "Neighbor Rosicky". [2] In 1932, it was published in the collection Obscure Destinies.
The organization was founded in 1955 [2] in Red Cloud, the small town that appears frequently in Willa Cather's novels and stories under a variety of names. [3]Cather, born in Virginia in 1873, moved with her family to rural Webster County, Nebraska, in 1883; in late 1884 the family resettled in the county seat of Red Cloud, where Cather lived until beginning her college studies at the ...
The Pavelka Farmstead, also known as the Antonia Farmstead, is a house located near Bladen in rural Webster County in south-central Nebraska, on land once owned and occupied by John and Anna Sadilek Pavelka. The farmstead provided a setting, and its occupants characters, for several of the works of author Willa Cather, [1] who grew up in ...