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(1913), Cather told her father and close friends that she was the author of Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy but told others that her role had not been significant. [51] According to L. Brent Bohlke of Bard College, editor of Willa Cather in Person (1990), Cather regarded the Eddy book as poorly written
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.
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.
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 ...
The 2001 ARIS study projected from its sample that there are about 5.3 million adults in the American Jewish population: 2.83 million adults (1.4% of the US adult population) are estimated to be adherents of Judaism; 1.08 million are estimated to be adherents of no religion; and 1.36 million are estimated to be adherents of a religion other ...
"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).
Christian Science went on to become the fastest-growing American religion in the early 20th century. The federal religious census recorded 85,717 Christian Scientists in 1906; 30 years later it was 268,915. [222] In 1890 there were seven Christian Science churches in the United States, a figure that had risen to 1,104 by 1910. [178]
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.