Traces the life of the American novelist from her childhood in the newly settled prairies of Nebraska through her years as a journalist, editor, and teacher, and examines the relationship between what she wrote and who she was.
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A Lost Lady brilliantly recaptures a specific chapter in American history and its evocation of loss and nostalgia remains recognizable to readers of every time and place.
It offers material that can be found nowhere else. Here are Willa Cather of Red Cloud, her family and friends, and the things that formed her sensibilities.
A Chance Meeting going away merely to escape the heat and to regard Mont Blanc from an advantageous point — not to become acquainted with the country . III My trip into the mountains was wholly successful . All the suggestions the old ...
This volume contains four great works (O Pioneers!
Maxwell Geismar's view of Lewis as " a sort of Alice Toklas to Miss Cather's Stein " in his 1953 review of Willa Cather Living anticipated the sort of interest that would develop . To Elizabeth Sergeant , Cather had confessed her need ...
This collection is valuable for anyone interested in the art of writing, in the genesis of the writer, or in the shape of American culture in the first decades of this century.
19-20 : St. Martin - in - the - Fields for St. Martins - inthe - Field . P. 914 , 1. 4 : comma added after Perseus ; l . 12 and throughout : Rossetti for Rosetti . P. 916 , 1. 10 : James ' for James ; l . 14 : palettes for palets ; 1.
A first publication of the acclaimed writer's personal correspondences includes whimsical teenage reports of her 1880s Red Cloud life, letters written during her early journalism years and the 1940s exchanges penned in observation of World ...
In this landmark of American fiction, Cather tells the story of young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the Nebraska lands they have struggled to farm.