1. Willa Cather - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Willa Cather was born on a small farm in Back Creek Valley (near Winchester, Virginia). Her father was Charles Fectigue Cather (d. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather

Willa Cather From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Willa Silbert Cather Cather in 1936. Born December 7 near Winchester, Virginia USA Died April 24 New York City New York USA ... American Writing period Willa Sibert Cather December 7 April 24 ) is an eminent author who grew up in the state of Nebraska in the United States . She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers! My ntonia , and Death Comes for the Archbishop Contents Early life Writing career Honors Personal life ... edit Early life Willa Cather was born on a small farm in Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia . Her father was Charles Fectigue Cather (d. 1928), whose family had lived on land in the valley for six generations. Her mother was born Mary Virginia Boak (d. 1931). Mary had six more children after Willa: Roscoe, Douglass, Jessica, James, John, and Elsie. In 1883, Cather moved with her family to Catherton in Webster County, Nebraska . The following year the family relocated to Red Cloud , the county seat. Cather spent the rest of her childhood in the town which she made famous by her writing. Willa Cather insisted on attending college, so her family borrowed money for her to enroll at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln While in college, Cather became a regular contributor to the

2. Willa Cather Willa Sibert Cather was born in Back Creek Valley, Virginia., on December. 7, 1873. She died on April. 24, 1947. Cather s work made her one of the most http://www.uic.edu/depts/quic/history/willa_cather.html

Willa Cather Willa Sibert Cather was born in Back Creek Valley, Virginia., on December. 7, 1873. She died on April. 24, 1947. Cather's work made her one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the 20th century. When Cather was nine, her family homesteaded in pioneer Nebraska. She was a tomboy at home in the saddle. enjoyed distinguished careers as journalist, editor, and fiction writer. Cather is most often thought of as a chronicler of the pioneer American West. Critics note that the themes of her work are intertwined with the universal story of the rise of civilizations in history, the drama of the immigrant in a new world, and views of personal involvements with art. Cather's fiction is characterized by a strong sense of place, the subtle presentation of human relationships, an often unconventional narrative structure, and a style of clarity and beauty. In 1895, Cather graduated from the University of Nebraska. She had first arrived at the University dressed as William Cather, her opposite sex twin. While in college, she fell passionately in love with Louise Pound, a fellow student and athlete. In her book column published in the Lincoln, Nebraska Journal , she condemned Oscar Wilde in 1985. Her first books were a poetry collection

3. Willa Cather Willa Cather s reputation as one of America s finest novelists rests on her novels about Nebraska and the American Southwest. These novels express her deep http://www.ibiblio.org/cheryb/women/Willa-Cather.html

Willa Cather (1873-1947) Willa Cather's reputation as one of America's finest novelists rests on her novels about Nebraska and the American Southwest. These novels express her deep love of the land and her distaste for the materialism and conformism of modern life. Devoted to values such as the importance of family and the need for human courage and dignity, she created strong female characters whose sort of strength and determination had previously been attributed only to men. Of her twelve novels, "My Antonia" and "Death Comes for the Archibishop" are considered the finest. You can take a look at one of her novels, "O Pioneers!"

4. Willa Cather --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Willa Cather American novelist noted for her portrayals of the settlers and frontier life on the American plains. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9020805/Willa-Cather

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5. Great Books Index - Willa Cather Willa Cather Great Books Index. Writings of Willa Cather. Professor s House . Youth and Bright Medusa . O Pioneers! . Troll Garden . http://books.mirror.org/gb.cather.html

GREAT BOOKS INDEX Willa Cather (18761947) An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation AUTHORS/HOME TITLES ABOUT GB INDEX BOOK LINKS Writings of Willa Cather Professor's House Youth and Bright Medusa O Pioneers! Troll Garden ... Articles The Professor's House HTML pages (Michigan) [Back to Top of Page] Youth and the Bright Medusa HTML edition (Virginia) [Back to Top of Page] O Pioneers! HTML edition (Maryland) Text file (gopher, Minnesota) Each chapter is a separate text file. Text edition in one file (ftp, Gutenberg at Illinois, 310KB) [Back to Top of Page] The Troll Garden and Selected Stories Text edition in one file (ftp, Gutenberg at Illinois, 480KB) [Back to Top of Page] The Song of the Lark HTML edition (Maryland) Text edition in one file (ftp, Gutenberg at Illinois, 960KB) [Back to Top of Page] Alexander's Bridge HTML edition (Maryland) HTML pages (Michigan) Text edition in one file (ftp, Gutenberg at Illinois, 170KB) [Back to Top of Page] My Antonia HTML edition (Maryland) Text file Text edition in one file (ftp, Gutenberg at Illinois, 450KB) [Back to Top of Page] Links to Information About Willa Cather About Paul's Case Article by Paul Bixby.

6. Willa Cather - Wikiquote Willa Sibert Cather (7 December 1873 – 24 April 1947) is among the most eminent American authors, known for her depictions of US life in her novels. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Willa_Cather

Willa Cather From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it — for a little while. Willa Sibert Cather 7 December 24 April ) is among the most eminent American authors, known for her depictions of US life in her novels. Contents Sourced O Pioneers! (1913) The Song of the Lark (1915) My Antonia (1918) ... edit Sourced No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end. Alexander's Bridge (1912) Ch. 8 It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. Youth and the Bright Medusa , "A Gold Slipper" (1920) The world there was the flat world of the ancients; to the east, a cornfield that stretched to daybreak; to the west, a corral that reached to the sunset; between, the conquests of peace, dearer-bought than those of war. Youth and the Bright Medusa , "A Wagner Matinee" (1920) The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

7. Willa Cather Biography And Summary Willa Cather biography with 1170 pages of profile on Willa Cather sourced from encyclopedias, critical essays, summaries, and research journals. http://www.bookrags.com/Willa_Cather

Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Biographies Research Anything: All BookRags Literature Guides Essays Criticism Biographies Encyclopedias History Encyclopedias Films Periodic Table ... Amazon.com Willa Cather Summary Order the Willa Cather Summary Pack View 31 Willa Cather Critical Essays Willa Cather About 1,170 pages (350,908 words) in 42 products "Willa Cather" Search Results Contents: Biographies Works by Author Summaries Reference Criticism Biography Name: Willa Sibert Cather Birth Date: Death Date: Place of Birth: Winchester, Virginia, United States Nationality: American Gender: Female Occupations: author summary from source: Biography of Willa Sibert Cather 652 words, approx. 2 pages The American author Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) is distinguished for her strong and sensitive evocations of prairie life in the twilight years of the midwestern frontier. Her poetic sensibility was in sharp contrast to the naturalistic and... summary from source: Biography of Willa Sibert Cather 10,472 words, approx. 35 pages Willa Cather is an outstanding example of a writer whose work is deeply rooted in a sense of place and at the same time universal in its treatment of theme and character. The corner of earth that she is best known for depicting is Nebraska, where she... summary from source: Biography of Willa Sibert Cather 9,708 words, approx. 32 pages

8. Internet Book List :: Author Information: Willa Cather Willa Sibert Cather was born on the family farm in Black Creek Valley, Virginia, on December 7, 1873. When she was nine, her parents, Charles Fectigue and http://www.iblist.com/author262.htm

@import "http://www.iblist.com/css/site.css"; Books by Title by Author by Genre by Rating Authors by Name by Rating Series by Name by Genre by Rating IBList About Forums Donate Contact ... Statistics User Register Author Information: Willa Cather View all 1 Images Comment! Rating: Weighted - 7.15 / Average - of 10 (13 votes) Comments: show them Biography's Source: Biography: Willa Sibert Cather was born on the family farm in Black Creek Valley, Virginia, on December 7, 1873. When she was nine, her parents, Charles Fectigue and Mary Virginia Boak Cather moved the family to Nebraska, settling at Red Cloud, where her father opened a loan and insurance office. Homeschooled by her mother and grandmother, Willa later attended Red Cloud High School and studied at the University of Nebraska from 1890 to 1895. Cather eventually moved to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where she worked as an editor for the Home Monthly and the Daily Leader from 1898 to 1901, when she left to teach high-school English. In 1903 she published a book of verse, April Twilights , and in 1905 a collection of short stories, The Troll Garden . She worked as managing editor at McClure’s Magazine, in New York City, from 1906 to 1912. In 1912 she resigned from McClure’s to devote herself to writing.

9. The My Hero Project - Willa Cather Willa Cather was born on December 7, 1873, in Back Creek, Virginia. When she was nine years old, she moved with her family to Nebraska. http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=Cather_SRCS_04

10. The Willa Cather Archive The willa cather Archive is an ambitious endeavor to create a rich, useful, and widelyaccessible site for the study of willa cather s life and writings. http://cather.unl.edu/

@import "cather.css"; Writings Scholarly Editions First Editions Short Fiction ... at UNL New on the Archive 13 new letters added to A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather: An Expanded, Digital Edition TokenX Text Analysis tool now available 5 Bank Street: Listserv for Cather Scholars New Texts First edition of The Song of the Lark Original periodical publications: "Scandal" "Ardessa" "The Bookkeeper's Wife" Susan J. Rosowski Cather Endowment Fund ... UNL Libraries Updated January 2008

11. Willa Cather Page willa cather Page, dedicated to 20th century American novelist. http://gustavus.edu/academics/english/cather/

W ILLA SIBERT CATHER was born December 7, 1873, near Winchester, Virginia . When she was nine years old, her family moved to the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska , later the setting for a number of her novels. She attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln . After college she spent the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching high school in Pittsburgh . She moved to New York City and worked for six years on the editorial staff of McClure's Magazine . Cather won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours . She died on April 24, 1947. E vents P ublications ... ther The Willa Cather Electronic Archive is a fantastic resource. The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial has their own Cather page. Anne Lindhard has developed a beautiful Cather site Information for students seeking help with researching and writing papers Comments and questions: cather @fas.harvard.edu (remove the space when writing) Site created 6 January 1996 by Scott Newstrom Last updated 5 March 2002 Hosted by Harvard University

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My Account Home Free Online Study Guides Best Editing Anywhere Getting you the grade since 1999. Study Guides Editing Services ... Help Search: Biography of Willa Cather (1873-1947) Willa Cather Willa Cather was born on December 7, 1873 in Back Creek Valley (a small farming community close to the Blue Ridge Mountains) in Virginia. She was the eldest child of Charles Cather, a deputy Sheriff, and Mary Virginia Boak Cather. The family traces its ancestors to Ireland, from which they settled in Pennsylvania in the 1750's. In 1883 the Cather family moved to join Willa's grandparents William and Caroline and her uncle George in Webster County, Nebraska. At the time her family included Willa's two brothers Roscoe and Douglass, a sister Jessica and her grandmother Rachel Boak who lived with them. A year later they moved to Red Cloud, a nearby railroad town, where her father opened a loan and insurance office. The family never became rich or influential, and Willa attributed their lack of financial success to her father, whom she claimed placed intellectual and spiritual matters over the commercial. Her mother was a vain woman, mostly concerned with fashion and trying to turn Willa into "a lady", in spite of the fact that Willa defied the norms for girls and cut her hair short and wore trousers. While living in the town Willa met Annie Sadilek, whom she later used for the Antonia character in My Antonia . Many of Willa's characters are inspired by people she met in her youth. Another notable example is Olive Fremstad, an opera singer, who inspired the character Thea Kronborg in

13. Willa Cather Home Page icg.harvard.edu/~cather/home.html Similar pages willa cather FoundationThe cather Foundation collects, preserves, and promotes materials related to the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning, twentieth-century author willa cather. http://icg.harvard.edu/~cather/home.html

14. Willa Cather Biography And Literary Works willa cather was born in Back Creek Valley (now Gore), near Winchester, Virginia. At the age of nine she moved with her family to a farm near Red Clour, http://www.classicreader.com/author.php/aut.156/

Fiction Non-Fiction Young Readers Poetry ... Members :: Tools Printer-friendly Willa Cather Titles in Fiction category: Alexander's Bridge Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. He had lived there as a student, but for twenty years and more, since he had been Professor of Philoso ... My Antonia Last summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good fortune to have for a traveling companion James Quayle BurdenJim Burden, as we still call him in the West. He and I are old friendswe grew up together in the same Nebraska townand we ... O Pioneers! One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the cluster of low drab buildings huddled on the gray prairie, under a gray sky. The dwelling-houses ... One of Ours Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.

15. Willa Cather: Domestic Goddess Domestic Goddess willa cather was born in December of 1873. Like many other authors, cather worked a variety of jobs, from journalist, to teacher, http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/cather1.htm

Criticism Photos of Cather's childhood home! Domestic Goddesses Home Domestic Goddess Willa Cather was born in December of 1873. Like many other authors, Cather worked a variety of jobs, from journalist, to teacher, to editor of McClure's magazine . She won a Pulitzer prize in 1923 for One of Ours , however, this was not the only honor she received. in Virginia , she imagined that, "I had left even their spirits [her grandparents] behind me. The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not whither. . . . Between that earth and sky I felt erased, blotted out" (qtd in the foreword to x). Cather understood the coming change between cultures; she saw the immigrant children, like Ántonia, moving away from the culture of their parents and into a kind of uneasy Americanism. She said of these new inhabitants of the Midwest, "It is perhaps natural that they should be very much interested in material comfort, in buying whatever is expensive and ugly" since they "were reared amid hardships" (qtd. in the foreword to xiii).

16. Willa Cather Indeed, willa cather was as provincial as Hawthorne or Flaubert or Turgenev, as little concerned with aesthetics and as much with morals as Tolstoy, http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wcather.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Will(el)a (Siebert) Cather (1873-1947) "She was a good artist, and all true art is provincial in the most realistic sense: of the very time and place of its making, out of human beings who are so particularly limited by their situation, whose faces and names are real and whose lives begin each one at an individual unique center. Indeed, Willa Cather was as provincial as Hawthorne or Flaubert or Turgenev, as little concerned with aesthetics and as much with morals as Tolstoy, as obstinately reserved as Melville. In fact she always reminds me of very good literary company, of the particularly admirable masters who formed her youthful tastes, her thinking and feeling." ( Katherine Anne Porter in Lesbian and Bisexual Fiction Writer s, ed. by H. Bloom, 1997) Willa Siebert Cather was born in Back Creek Valley (now Gore), near Winchester, Virginia. At the age of nine she moved with her family to a farm near Red Cloud, in the Nebraska settler country. There she grew up among the immigrants from Europe, most of them coming from Scandinavia, who were establishing homesteads on the Great Plains. Although Cather lived as an adult in Pittsburgh and New York City, the wide open spaces, bare "as a piece of sheet iron", and its people formed the background for half of her novels and many short stories depicting the frontier life on the American plains.

17. Willa Cather - Free Online Library Free Online Library books by willa cather best known authors and titles are available on the Free Online Library. http://cather.thefreelibrary.com/

CacheBuster('') Printer Friendly over 3,000,000 articles and books Periodicals Literature Keyword Title Author Topic Member login User name Password Remember me Join us Forgot password? Submit articles free The Free Library ... Literature Willa Cather Willa Sibert Cather, Nebraska's most noted novelist, was born in 1873 in Virginia. At the age of ten, she moved with her family to Webster County, Nebraska, and lived on a farm there for two years before moving into the town of Red Cloud. Many of Cather's acquaintances and Red Cloud area scenes can be recognized in her writings. Cather was graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1895. While attending the university, she was a drama critic for the Lincoln Journal . She worked for Home Monthly and the Daily Leader in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and later taught English and Latin at Allegheny, Pennsylvania. She moved to New York and became the leading magazine editor of her day while serving as managing editor of McClure's Magazine from 1906 to 1912. Cather continued her education and received a doctorate of letters at the University of Nebraska in 1917. She also received honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, and from Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning many awards including the Gold Metal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1922, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel

18. American Masters . Willa Cather | PBS willa cather s MY ANTONIA is about the hardy people who risked their lives and fortunes in a harsh new land; cather had the great good fortune to have lived http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/cather_w.html

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); Willa Cather by Kathleen Norris "No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as MY ANTONIA." H. L. Mencken In the mid-1970s, not long after I had moved from New York City to Lemmon, South Dakota, I attended a 90th birthday party for a woman who had been one of the original homesteaders in the area, having immigrated from Sweden with her parents in 1909. The Lutheran church basement was decorated with crepe-paper streamers, and one table held family photographs color snapshots of the great-grandchildren, wedding photographs from the 1950s, daguerreotypes of stern-faced ancestors in the Old Country. Most of the woman's children were in attendance; I knew the ones who ranched in the area, but not those who had moved on to Oregon, Washington, California. In the course of our conversation, my husband asked her how many children she'd had, and the woman laughed nervously and said, "Oh, dear, I don't remember. Some died so young. Sixteen, maybe ... 14. Eleven lived." It was risky, in the early part of this century, to presume to write fiction about ordinary, rough-hewn people engaged in the rigors of dry land farming in frontier Nebraska. The prevailing literary style was for overrefined, predictable, plot-driven novels with characters who held fast to European pretensions and standards of gentility. Along with writers such as Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather was seen by some contemporary critics as an answered prayer. Writing about O PIONEERS!, which had established Cather's national reputation when it appeared in 1913, one critic stated, "Here at last is an American novel, redolent of the Western prairies."

19. PAL: Willa Cather (1873-1947) A prolific writer of a dozen books and sixty short stories, willa cather is an excellent stylist and structuralist. Her novels and stories chronicle the http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/cather.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 7: Willa Cather (1873-1947) Willa Cather Foundation Willa Cather Archive Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-1999 ... Home Page Source: Nebraska State Historical Society A prolific writer of a dozen books and sixty short stories, Willa Cather is an excellent stylist and structuralist. Her novels and stories chronicle the frontier experience, the plight of the artist during the age of industrialism and progress, and the alienation and initiation of the young. Her description of desert scenes, of the mesas, and of farms are like impessionistic landscape paintings. Primary Works April Twilights (poetry), 1903, 1923; The Troll Garden (stories), 1905; Alexander's Bridge The Song of the Lark My Antonia Youth and the Bright Medusa (stories), 1920; One of Ours A Lost Lady The Professor's House My Mortal Enemy Death Comes for the Archbishop Shadows on the Rock Obscure Destinies (stories), 1932;

20. Willa Cather State Historic Site In Nebraska Nebraska tourist attraction, visit six period structures that influenced willa cather s writing, including her childhood home, the Catholic and Episcopal http://www.nebraskahistory.org/sites/cather/

Walk a mile in her shoes! Willa Cather, Nebraska's Pulitzer Prize-winning author, spent her formative years in Red Cloud. Many of the scenes and characters in her writings are based on the people, streets, and landscapes Cather encountered here in her youth. Visit eight period structures that influenced her writing, including her childhood home, the Catholic and Episcopal churches, the Garber Bank, the Burlington Depot, and the Pavelka Farmstead, home of Annie Pavelka, the basis for the title character of Cather's most famous novel, My Antonia. Cather's collections of writings and notes are available to researchers at the Willa Cather State Historic Site or at the Nebraska State Historical Society's Library/Archives in Lincoln, 1500 R Street. Location: 413 N Webster Red Cloud, NE Map of Red Cloud Hours: April - October: 8 - 5 Monday - Saturday 1 - 5 Sunday November - March: 8 - 5 Monday - Friday 9 - 12, 1 - 5 Saturday Admission: Tour prices vary , please call 402-746-2653 Admission fees are waived for NSHS members Facilities: Cather Childhood Home Garber Bank St. Juliana Catholic Church

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