Willa Cather - Wikipedia Willa Cather From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search American writer (1873-1947) Willa Cather Cather in 1936 Born Wilella Sibert Cather (1873-12-07)December 7, 1873 Gore, Virginia, U.S. Died April 24, 1947(1947-04-24) (aged 73) Manhattan, New York, U.S. Occupation Novelist Period 1905–1947 Willa Sibert Cather (/ˈkæðər/;[1] born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873[a] – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33, she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. Cather achieved recognition as a novelist of the frontier and pioneer experience. She wrote of the tenacity and spirit of settlers, many of them European immigrants, in the Great Plains in the early to mid-20th Century. Common themes in her work include loss, exile, and social isolation. A sense of place is an important element in Cather's fiction; sometimes harsh, often beautiful, physical landscapes and domestic spaces are for Cather dynamic presences against which the characters both struggle and express love. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2.1 1920s 2.2 1930s 3 Personal life 4 Writing influences 5 Literary style and themes 6 Later years 7 Legacy and honors 8 Bibliography 8.1 Nonfiction 8.2 Novels 8.2.1 Essays and articles 8.3 Collections 9 Documentary 10 See also 11 References 12 Further reading 13 External links 13.1 Libraries 13.2 Online editions Early life and education[edit] Willa Cather House, Red Cloud, Nebraska Cather was born in 1873 on her maternal grandmother's farm in the Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia.[4][5][3] Her father was Charles Fectigue Cather (died 1928).[6] Cather's family originated in Wales, the family name deriving from Cadair Idris, a mountain in Gwynedd.[3]:13 Her mother was Mary Virginia Boak (died 1931),[7] a former school teacher. By the time Cather turned twelve months old, the family moved to Willow Shade, a Greek Revival-style home on 130 acres given to them by her paternal grandparents.[8] At the urging of Charles Cather's parents, the family moved to Nebraska in 1883 when Willa was nine years old. The farmland appealed to Charles' father, and the family wished to escape the tuberculosis outbreaks that were rampant in Virginia.[9] Willa's father tried his hand at farming for eighteen months; then he moved the family into the town of Red Cloud, where he opened a real estate and insurance business, and the children attended school for the first time.[3]:43 Some of the earliest work produced by Cather was first published in the Red Cloud Chief, the city's local paper.[10] Cather's time in Nebraska, still considered a frontier state, was a formative experience for her: She was moved by the dramatic environment and weather, the vastness of the prairie, and the various cultures of the immigrant[11] and Native American families in the area.[12][13][14] Mary Cather had six more children after Willa: Roscoe, Douglass, Jessica, James, John, and Elsie.[15]:5–7 Cather was closer to her brothers than to her sisters whom, according to biographer Hermione Lee, she "seems not to have liked very much."[16]:36 Cather read widely, having made friends with a Jewish couple, the Weiners, who offered her free access to their extensive library.[17] She made house calls with the local physician and decided to become a doctor.[18] Cather moved to Lincoln, Nebraska in 1890 to attend the University of Nebraska. While there in her first year, her essay on Thomas Carlyle was published in the Nebraska State Journal without her knowledge.[3]:72–3[19] She thereafter published columns for $1 apiece, saying that seeing her words printed on the page had "a kind of hypnotic effect," pushing her to continue writing.[19] Following this experience, she became a regular contributor to the Journal. In addition to her work with the local paper, Cather served as the managing editor of The Hesperian, the University of Nebraska's student newspaper, and associated at the Lincoln Courier.[20] While at the university, she learned mathematics from John J. Pershing, who later became General of the Armies and also earned a Pulitzer Prize.[21][22] She changed her plans from majoring in science and becoming a physician, instead graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1894.[23] Career[edit] In 1896, Cather moved to Pittsburgh after being hired to write for the Home Monthly,[24] a women's magazine patterned after the successful Ladies' Home Journal.[3]:114 A year later, after the Home Monthly was sold,[25] she became a telegraph editor and drama critic for the Pittsburgh Leader and frequently contributed poetry and short fiction to The Library, another local publication.[26] In Pittsburgh, she taught Latin, algebra, and English composition[3]:150 at Central High School for one year; she then taught English and Latin at Allegheny High School, where she came to head the English department.[27][28] During her first year in Pittsburgh, Cather also wrote short stories, including publishing "Tommy, the Unsentimental" in the Home Monthly,[29] about a Nebraskan girl with a boy's name, who looks like a boy and saves her father's bank business. Janis P. Stout calls this story one of several Cather works that "demonstrate the speciousness of rigid gender roles and give favorable treatment to characters who undermine conventions."[30] Cather's first collection of short stories, The Troll Garden, was published in 1905 by McClure, Phillips, and Company. It contains several of Cather's best-known stories—"A Wagner Matinee," "The Sculptor's Funeral," and "Paul's Case."[31] In 1906 Cather moved to New York City after being offered a position on the editorial staff of McClure's Magazine, a periodical connected with the publisher of The Troll Garden the year before. During her first year at McClure's, she ghostwrote a critical biography of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, crediting freelance researcher Georgine Milmine instead. Milmine had performed copious amounts of research, but she did not have the resources to produce a manuscript on her own, so she employed Cather.[3]:194 "Mary Baker G. Eddy: The Story of Her Life and the History of Christian Science" was serialized in McClure's over the next eighteen months, and then published in book form. McClure's also serialized Cather's first novel, Alexander's Bridge (1912), with most reviews being favorable. For example, The New York Times praised "the dramatic situations and the clever conversations,"[3]:225 and The Atlantic called the writing "deft and skillful."[32] Cather followed Alexander's Bridge with her three novels set on the prairie: O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). These works became both popular and critical successes. Cather was celebrated by national critics such as H. L. Mencken for writing in plainspoken language about ordinary people.[33][34] Sinclair Lewis praised her work for making "the outside world know Nebraska as no one else has done."[35] 1920s[edit] By 1920 Cather was unhappy with the performance of her publisher Houghton Mifflin which she felt did a poor job of advertising her books—My Ántonia received an advertising budget of only $300.[36] Cather then turned to the young publishing house, Alfred A. Knopf, which had a reputation for supporting its authors through advertising campaigns.[36] She also liked the look of its books and had been impressed with its edition of Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson.[36] Cather visited its office and found Blanche Knopf working the switchboard over the lunch hour. Since Cather was still under contract with Houghton Mifflin for her novels, Knopf published her short-story collection, Youth and the Bright Medusa[36] and advertised the collection in The New Republic. She would publish sixteen books with Knopf.[36] Cather was firmly established as a major American writer, receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her novel One of Ours.[36] She followed that up with Death Comes for the Archbishop in 1928.[36] Death Comes for the Archbishop was included on the Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century as well as Time's one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.[36] However, she was not without criticism. Ernest Hemingway wrote in a 1923 letter regarding One of Ours: "Wasn’t [the novel’s] last scene in the lines wonderful? Do you know where it came from? The battle scene in Birth of a Nation. I identified episode after episode, Catherized. Poor woman, she had to get her war experience somewhere."[37] 1930s[edit] By the 1930s, an increasingly large share of critics began to dismiss her as a "romantic, nostalgic writer who could not cope with the present."[38] Critics such as Granville Hicks charged Cather with failing to confront "contemporary life as it is" and escaping into an idealized past.[39] During the hardships of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, her work was seen as lacking social relevance.[39] Similarly, when her novel A Lost Lady was made into a film, critics were disappointed; it was remarked that the film's "resemblance to the original remains very much a mystery."[40] Cather's conservative politics, appealing to critics such as Mencken, Randolph Bourne, and Carl Van Doren, soured her reputation with younger, often left-leaning critics such as Hicks and Edmund Wilson.[41] Discouraged by the negative criticism of her work, Cather became defensive. She destroyed some of her correspondence and included a provision in her will that forbade the publication of her letters.[42] Despite this critical opposition to her work, Cather remained a popular writer whose novels and short story collections continued to sell well. In 1931 Shadows on the Rock was the most widely read novel in the US, and Lucy Gayheart became a bestseller in 1935.[43] Personal life[edit] Scholars disagree about Cather's sexual identity. Some, such as Joan Acocella, argue that it is impossible to ascertain whether she had same-sex attraction,[44][45] while others disagree.[46][47][48] Indeed, researcher Deborah Carlin suggests that Acocella's denial of Cather being a lesbian is rooted in treating same-sex desire "as an insult to Cather and her reputation," rather than neutral in nature.[49] Melissa Homestead of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln argued that Cather was attracted to Edith Lewis, asking, "What kind of evidence is needed to establish this as a lesbian relationship? Photographs of the two of them in bed together? She was an integral part of Cather’s life, creatively and personally."[4] In addition, her forthcoming book argues that "Cold War panic over homosexuality caused biographers and critics to make Lewis and her central role in Cather’s life vanish" and that Cather's experiences are best understood as "lesbian life in the early twentieth century United States".[50] Beyond her own relationships with women, Cather's reliance on male characters been used to support the idea of her same-sex attraction.[51] Isabelle McClung, an unidentified man, and Willa Cather aboard the SS Westernland, 1902 Throughout Cather's adult life, her closest relationships were with women. These included her college friend Louise Pound; the Pittsburgh socialite Isabelle McClung, with whom Cather traveled to Europe and at whose Toronto home she stayed for prolonged visits;[52] the opera singer Olive Fremstad; the pianist Yaltah Menuhin;[53] and most notably, the editor Edith Lewis, with whom Cather lived the last 39 years of her life. Willa Cather Memorial Prairie in Webster County, Nebraska Cather's relationship with Lewis began in the early 1900s. The two women lived together in a series of apartments in New York City from 1908 until Cather's death in 1947. From 1913 to 1927, Cather and Lewis lived at No. 5 Bank Street in Greenwich Village. They moved when the apartment was scheduled for demolition during the construction of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue New York City Subway line (now the 1, ​2, and ​3 trains).[54] Cather selected Lewis as the literary trustee for her estate.[55] Although she was born into a Baptist family, Cather began attending Episcopal services in 1906, and she joined the Episcopal Church in 1922.[56] Beginning in 1922, Cather spent summers on Grand Manan Island, in New Brunswick, where she bought a cottage in Whale Cove, on the Bay of Fundy and where her penultimate short story, "Before Breakfast," is set.[57][3]:23 She valued the seclusion of the island, and did not mind that her cottage had neither indoor plumbing nor electricity. Anyone wishing to reach her could do so by telegraph or mail.[3]:415 She stopped going to Grand Manan Island when Canada entered World War II in 1939, as travel was more difficult, tourist amenities were scarcer, and a favorite island doctor had died. Cather was experiencing a long recuperation from gallbladder surgery.[3]:496 A resolutely private person, Cather had destroyed many old drafts, personal papers, and letters. Her will restricted the ability of scholars to quote from the personal papers that remain. However, in April 2013, The Selected Letters of Willa Cather—a collection of 566 letters Cather wrote to friends, family, and literary acquaintances such as Thornton Wilder and F. Scott Fitzgerald—was published, two years after the death of Cather's nephew and second literary executor, Charles Cather. Willa Cather's correspondence revealed complexity of her character and inner world.[58] The letters do not disclose any intimate details about Cather's personal life, but they do "make clear that [her] primary emotional attachments were to women."[59] The Willa Cather Archive at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, run by Professor Andrew Jewell, is working to digitize her complete body of writing, including private correspondence and published work. To date, over 1,500 letters have been made freely available to the public, including transcription, images of the original documents, and letters made to Cather.[60] Writing influences[edit] Cather admired Henry James as a "mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives."[61] While Cather enjoyed the novels of George Eliot, the Brontës, and Jane Austen, she regarded most women writers with disdain, judging them overly sentimental and mawkish.[3]:110 Cather's biographer James Woodress notes that Cather "so completely ... embraced masculine values that when she wrote about women writers, she sounded like a patronizing man."[3]:110 One contemporary exception was Sarah Orne Jewett, who became Cather's friend and mentor. Jewett advised Cather to use female narrators in her fiction, but Cather preferred to write from a male point of view.[3]:214 Jewett also encouraged Cather to write about subjects that had "teased the mind" for years.[62] Chief among these subjects were the people and experiences Cather remembered from her years in Nebraska. She dedicated O Pioneers! to Jewett. Cather also admired the work of Katherine Mansfield, praising Mansfield's ability "to throw a luminous streak out onto the shadowy realm of personal relationships."[63] Cather's high regard for the immigrant families forging lives and enduring hardships on the Nebraska plains shaped much of her fiction. As a child, she visited immigrant families in her area and returned home in "the most unreasonable state of excitement," feeling that she "had got inside another person's skin."[64] Following a trip to Red Cloud in 1916 to visit her family, Cather decided to write a novel based on the events in the life of her childhood friend Annie Sadilek Pavelka, a Bohemian girl who became the model for the title character in My Ántonia.[3]:289 Cather was likewise fascinated by the French-Canadian pioneers from Quebec who had settled in the Red Cloud area while she was a girl.[65] During a brief stopover in Quebec with Edith Lewis in 1927, Cather was inspired to write a novel set in that French-Canadian city. Lewis recalled: "From the first moment that she looked down from the windows of the [Chateau] Frontenac [Hotel] on the pointed roofs and Norman outlines of the town of Quebec, Willa Cather was not merely stirred and charmed—she was overwhelmed by the flood of memories, recognition, surmise it called up; by the sense of its extraordinary French character, isolated and kept intact through hundreds of years, as if by a miracle, on this great un-French continent."[3]:414–15 Cather finished her novel Shadows on the Rock, a historical novel set in 17th-century Quebec, in 1931; it was later included in Life Magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924–1944.[66] The French influence is found in many other Cather works, including Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) and her final, unfinished novel set in Avignon. Literary style and themes[edit] Willa Cather in the Mesa Verde wilds, c. 1915 Although Cather began her writing career as a journalist, she made a distinction between journalism, which she saw as being primarily informative, and literature, which she saw as an art form.[67] Cather's work is often marked by its nostalgic tone, her subject matter and themes drawn from memories of her early years on the American plains. Some critics have charged Cather with being out of touch with her times and failing to use more experimental techniques, such as stream of consciousness, in her writing.[68] However, others have pointed out that Cather could follow no other literary path but her own: She had formed and matured her ideas on art before she wrote a novel. She had no more reason to follow Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, whose work she respected, than they did to follow her. Her style solves the problems in which she was interested. She wanted to stand midway between the journalists whose omniscient objectivity accumulate more fact than any character could notice and the psychological novelist whose use of subjective point of view stories distorts objective reality. She developed her theory on a middle ground, selecting facts from experience on the basis of feeling and then presenting the experience in a lucid, objective style. Cather's style is not the accumulative cataloguing of the journalists, nor the fragmentary atomism of psychological associations.[69] In a 1920 essay on Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken apologized for having suggested that Cather was a talented but inconsequential imitator of Edith Wharton. He praised her for abandoning New England as a locale for the "Middle West of the great immigrations." Mencken describes My Ántonia as a sudden leap forward by Cather. "Here was a novel planned with the utmost skill, and executed in truly admirable fashion," he wrote. "Here, unless I err gravely, was the best piece of fiction ever done by a woman in America."[70] The English novelist A. S. Byatt observes that with each work Cather reinvented the novel form "to look at a new human world."[71] Byatt identifies some of Cather's major themes as "the rising and setting of the sun, the brevity of life, the relation between dailiness and the rupture of dailiness, the moment when 'desire shall fail'."[71] Particularly in her frontier novels, Cather wrote of "life's terrors ... and its beauties."[72] Like the exiled characters of Henry James, an author who had a great influence on Cather, most of Cather's major characters live as exiled immigrants, "people trying to make their way in circumstances strange to them."[73] Joseph Urgo in Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration says Cather felt a connection between the immigrants' "sense of homelessness and exile" and her own feelings of exile when she lived on the frontier.[74] Susan J. Rosowski wrote that Cather was "the first to give immigrants heroic stature in serious American literature."[75] Similarly, notions of land, homesteading, and the frontier are integral to her work.[76][77] Later years[edit] Cather made her last trip to Red Cloud in 1931 for a family gathering following the death of her mother. She continued to stay in touch with her Red Cloud friends and she sent money to Annie Pavelka and other country families during the Depression years.[16]:327 In 1932, Cather published Obscure Destinies, her final collection of short fiction, which contained "Neighbour Rosicky", one of her most highly regarded stories. Cather and Edith Lewis moved into a new apartment on Park Avenue, and Cather began work on her next novel, Lucy Gayheart, a book that revealed "its author's darkening vision as she began her seventh decade."[3]:449 1920 photo of Edith Lewis, who Cather lived with in her later years Cather suffered two devastating losses in 1938.[78][79][80] In June, her favorite brother, Douglass, died of a heart attack. Cather was too grief-stricken to attend the funeral.[3]:478 Four months later, Isabelle McClung died. Cather and McClung had lived together when Cather first arrived in Pittsburgh, and while McClung eventually married and moved with her husband to Toronto,[81] the two women remained devoted friends.[3]:139 Cather wrote friends that Isabelle was the one for whom all her books had been written.[3]:479 Cather grew increasingly discouraged as the United States moved closer to involvement in World War II. After the French surrender to Nazi Germany, Cather wrote in her diary: "There seems to be no future at all for people of my generation."[15]:184 During the summer of 1940, Cather and Lewis went to Grand Manan for the last time, and Cather finished her final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, a novel much darker in tone and subject matter than her previous works.[3]:483[82] Sapphira is understood by readers as lacking a moral sense and failing to evoke empathy. However, the novel was a great critical and commercial success, with an advance printing of 25,000 copies. It was then adopted by the Book of the Month Club,[83] which bought more than 200,000 copies.[3]:488 Although an inflamed tendon in her hand hampered her writing, Cather managed to finish a substantial part of a novel set in Avignon, France. However, Edith Lewis destroyed the manuscript, according to Cather's instructions, when she died. Cather's remaining papers reveal that she had titled the unfinished manuscript Hard Punishments and set it in the 14th century during the papal reign of Antipope Benedict XIV.[16]:371 She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943.[84] In 1944, Cather received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, an award given once a decade for an author's total accomplishments.[3]:498 Though Cather suffered from no specific medical problems in her last years, those closest to her felt that her health was deteriorating.[3]:502 On April 24, 1947, Cather died of a cerebral hemorrhage, at the age of 73, in her home at 570 Park Avenue in Manhattan.[3]:504[85][86] Cather was buried in the Old Burying Ground, behind the Jaffrey Center Meeting House in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.[87] Her grave site, which she shares with Edith Lewis, is at the southwest corner of the graveyard. She had first visited Jaffrey in 1917 when she joined Isabelle McClung and her husband, violinist Jan Hambourg,[88] staying at the Shattuck Inn, where she came late in life for the seclusion necessary for her writing.[89] The inscription on her tombstone reads: WILLA CATHER December 7, 1873–April 24, 1947 THE TRUTH AND CHARITY OF HER GREAT SPIRIT WILL LIVE ON IN THE WORK WHICH IS HER ENDURING GIFT TO HER COUNTRY AND ALL ITS PEOPLE. " ... that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great" From My Ántonia Legacy and honors[edit] 1926, MacDowell Fellowship[90] An American Arts Commemorative Series medallion depicting Cather 1973 U.S. commemorative stamp honoring Cather 1955, the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation (now the Willa Cather Foundation) was founded to support the study of her life and work, and to maintain many sites in her hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska.[91] 1962, Cather was elected to the Nebraska Hall of Fame.[92] 1973, the U.S. Postal Service honored Willa Cather by issuing a stamp bearing her image.[93] 1974, Cather inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. 1981, the U.S. Mint created the Willa Cather half-ounce gold medallion.[94] 1986, Cather was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame.[95] 1988, Cather was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.[96] 1992, part of the 1992 film Nitrate Kisses focuses on the story of Cather, who destroyed many personal letters and papers before her death; the film argues that Cather was covering up evidence of lesbianism.[97] 2000, Cather was named a member of the inaugural class of Virginia Women in History.[98] 2006, Willa Cather Foundation received a National Endowment of the Humanities grant "to develop its work, which includes maintaining a slice of Nebraskan prairie as "Catherland," curating the Cather childhood home, holding Cather conferences, and publishing a Cather newsletter." [99] 2011, Cather was inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame.[100] Bibliography[edit] Nonfiction[edit] Willa Cather and Georgine Milmine, The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science (1909, reprinted U of Nebraska Press, 1993) Not Under Forty (1936, essays) On Writing (1949, reprint U Nebraska Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-8032-6332-1 ) Novels[edit] Alexander's Bridge (1912) O Pioneers! (1913) The Song of the Lark (1915) My Ántonia (1918) One of Ours (1922) A Lost Lady (1923) The Professor's House (1925) My Mortal Enemy (1926) Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) Shadows on the Rock (1931) Lucy Gayheart (1935) Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) Essays and articles[edit] On the Art of Fiction (1920), The Borzoi Collections[edit] April Twilights (1903, poetry) The Troll Garden (1905, short stories) A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays (1908, short stories) Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920, short stories) Obscure Destinies (1932, three stories) Not Under Forty (1936, essays) The Old Beauty and Others (1948, three stories) Willa Cather: On Writing (1949, essays) Five Stories (1956, published by the Estate of Willa Cather) The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (published 2013) This does not include recent collections of early stories which were originally published in periodicals.[101][102] Documentary[edit] Cather was the subject of the 2005 PBS documentary Willa Cather: The Road Is All.[103] See also[edit] Willa Cather Papers References[edit] ^ Cather's birth date is confirmed by a birth certificate and a January 22, 1874, letter of her father's referring to her.[2] While working at McClure's Magazine, Cather claimed to be born in 1875.[3]:note 40 After 1920, she claimed 1876 as her birth year. 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The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire (First ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 63–65. ISBN 9780374114251. OCLC 908176194. ^ Onion, Rebecca (October 21, 2019). "On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather's World War I Novel". Literary Hub. ^ O'Brien, Sharon. "Being Noncanonical: The Case Against Willa Cather." Cathy N. Davidson (ed.), Reading in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. ^ a b O'Brien, p. 246. ^ Melcher, E. de S. (November 17, 1934). "Willa Cather Novel Loses Much in the Screen Story". Evening Star (Washington, D.C.). p. 21. ^ Decker, James M. (April 2003). "Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism". Modern Language Review. ^ Joan Acocella. What’s in Cather’s Letters. The New Yorker, April 9, 2013. ^ Acocella, Joan. Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. Lincoln, NE.:University of Nebraska Press, 2000, p. 25. ^ Sharistanian, Janet. Introduction to My Ántonia, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. xiii. ^ Acocella, Joan (April 9, 2013). "What's in Cather's Letters". The New Yorker. ^ Lindemann, Marilee. Willa Cather: Queering America. NY:Columbia University Press, 1999, p. 25. ^ Flannigan, John F. "Issues of Gender and Lesbian Love: Goblins in "The Garden Lodge"". Cather Studies. 2. ^ Ammons, Elizabeth. "Cather and the New Canon: "The Old Beauty" and the Issue of Empire". Cather Studies. 3. Despite her sympathetic portraits of northern and eastern European gentile immigrants and her own status as a closeted lesbian writer in an increasingly homophobic era, Willa Cather was in key ways reactionary and racist. ^ Carlin, Deborah (January 1, 2001). "Review of Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary TraditionBy John P. Anders & Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism By Joan Acocella". Great Plains Quarterly. 21 (1). ^ Homestead, Melissa. "The Only Wonderful Things – MELISSA J. HOMESTEAD". ^ O'Brien, Sharon. Willa Cather : the emerging voice. New York. pp. 215–216. ISBN 0195041321. ^ Gatenby, Greg (1993). The Wild is Always There: Canada through the eyes of foreign writers. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada. p. 214. ISBN 0-394-28023-7. ^ Rolfe, Lionel. (2004). The Uncommon Friendship of Yaltah Menuhin & Willa Cather. American Legends/California Classics Books, 168 pp. ISBN 1-879395-46-0. ^ Bunyan, Patrick. All Around the Town: Amazing Manhattan Facts and Curiosities, p. 66. New York: Fordham University Press, 1999 ^ "Cather's Life: Chronology". The Willa Cather Archive, University of Nebraska. Retrieved March 21, 2007. ^ Acocella, Joan. Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2000, p. 4. ^ Ahern, Amy. "Willa Cather: Longer Biographical Sketch". The Willa Cather Archive, University of Nebraska. Retrieved March 21, 2007. ^ Christopher Benfey. Willa Cather's Correspondence Reveals Something New: The rage of a great American novelist, The New Republic, October 12, 2013. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer. "O Revelations! Letters, Once Banned, Flesh Out Willa Cather." The New York Times. March 22, 2013, A1. ^ "About | Willa Cather Archive". cather.unl.edu. Retrieved December 26, 2019. ^ Curtin, William M., ed. The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893–1902. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1970, p. 248. ^ Cather, Willa. Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1988, p. 48 ^ Cather, Willa. Not Under Forty. New York: Knopf, 1936, p. 135. ^ Bennet, Mildred. The World of Willa Cather. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961, pp. 169–70. ^ Danker, Kathleen (Winter 2000). "The Influence of Willa Cather's French-Canadian Neighbors in Nebraska in Death Comes for the Archbishop and Shadows on the Rock." Great Plains Quarterly. p. 34. ^ Canby, Henry Seidel. "The 100 Outstanding Books of 1924–1944." Life Magazine, August 14, 1944. Chosen in collaboration with the magazine's editors. ^ Middleton, Joanne (1990). Willa Cather's Modernism: A Study of Style and Technique. Hackensack, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson. p. 27. ^ Middleton p. 36. ^ Curtin, William M. "Willa Cather: Individualism and Style." Colby Library Quarterly. June 1968, No. 2, p. 52. ^ Mencken, H. L. "Willa Cather". The Borzoi 1920: Being a sort of record of five years' publishing. Alfred Knopf. 1920. pp. 28–31. Retrieved September 21, 2017. ^ a b Byatt, A. S. (December 8, 2006). "American pastoral". The Guardian. Retrieved January 23, 2014. ^ Acocella, Joan, p. 6 ^ Acocella, Joan. Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000, p. 5 ^ Urgo, Joseph R. Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995, p. 17 ^ Rosowski, Susan. The Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather's Romanticism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (1986), p. 45 ^ Keller, Julia (September 7, 2002). "The town Willa Cather couldn't leave behind". The Anniston Star. Chicago Tribune. p. 10. ^ Ramirez, Karen E. (Spring 2010). "Narrative Mappings of the Land as Space and Place in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!". Great Plains Quarterly. 30 (2). ^ Cather, Willa (March 5, 1939). "Dorothy Canfield Fisher (March 5 [1939]) | Willa Cather Archive". cather.unl.edu. ^ Cather, Willa (October 12, 1938). "Ferris Greenslet (October 12 [1938]) | Willa Cather Archive". cather.unl.edu. They were the two people dearest to me. ^ Cather, Willa (May 6, 1941). "Mary Willard (May 6, 1941) | Willa Cather Archive". cather.unl.edu. I have waited for some days to turn to you, because I seemed unable to utter anything but a cry of grief and bitter disappointment. Only Isabelle's death and the death of my brother Douglass have cut me so deep. The feeling I have, all the time, is that so much of my life has been cut away. ^ Gatenby, Greg (1993). The Wild is Always There: Canada through the eyes of foreign writers. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada. p. 215. ISBN 0-394-28023-7. ^ Walton, David (March 4, 1990). "Putting Cather into Perspective". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 3-J. ^ "Sensational Autobiography Chosen". The Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia). December 8, 1940. p. 76. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter C" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 29, 2014. ^ "Author of Lost Lady Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 for Writing One of Ours". The New York Times. April 25, 1947. Retrieved January 18, 2014. Willa Sibert Cather, noted American novelist, died at 4:30 P.M. yesterday in her home at 570 Park Avenue. After Miss Cather's death a secretary, who was with her at the time, was too upset to talk about it. It was reported that death was due to a cerebral hemorrhage. The author was 70 years old in December. ^ Mulligan, Hugh A. (February 13, 1980). "Visiting Willa Cather: Sabbatical of the Heart". The Shreveport Journal. Associated Press. p. 52. ^ Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 7776). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition. ^ "Willa Cather and Isabelle McClung". The Norfolk Library Book Group. Retrieved September 21, 2017. ^ "Jaffrey: Willa Cather's Last Page". September 9, 2008. Retrieved April 9, 2014. ^ "Willa Cather - Artist". MacDowell. ^ "About the Willa Cather Foundation". Willa Cather Foundation. Retrieved December 5, 2017. ^ "Nebraska Hall of Fame Members". nebraskahistory.org. ^ "Willa Cather". U.S. Stamp Gallery. Retrieved December 5, 2017. ^ "U.S. Issues Two More Gold Medallions in Artists Series". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, PA: Knight Ridder. November 4, 1984. p. R13. ^ All past Honorees, National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, USA. Accessed April 28, 2010. ^ [1] National Women's Hall of Fame. Accessed January 4, 2018. ^ Canby, Vincent (April 9, 1993). "Nitrate Kisses (1992) Review". The New York Times. Retrieved May 10, 2008. ^ "Virginia Women in History". Lva.virginia.gov. Retrieved December 13, 2016. ^ Lee, Hermoine (July 11, 2013). "Willa Cather: A Hidden Voice". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved January 24, 2014. ^ "2011 New York State Writers Hall of Fame Inductees Announced". New York State Writers Hall of Fame. April 1, 2011. Retrieved December 5, 2017. ^ "Cather's Life: Chronology". The Willa Cather Archive. Archived from the original on July 1, 2007. Retrieved August 13, 2007. ^ "Cather's Writings: Short Fiction". The Willa Cather Archive. Archived from the original on July 2, 2007. Retrieved August 13, 2007. ^ Geyer, Joel; Giannone, Richard (September 8, 2005). "Willa Cather: The Road is All". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 17, 2013. Further reading[edit] Acocella, Joan (2002). Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-1046-9. Barclay, Donald A. (1994). "Willa Cather: Overview." Gay & Lesbian Literature. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale. ISBN 978-1-4144-3734-7. Birns, Nicholas, ed (2012). Critical Insights: Willa Cather. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press. ISBN 978-1587658266. Daiches, David. (1971). Willa Cather: A Critical Introduction. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0837152110 Jaillant, Lise. "Canonical in the 1930s: Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop in the Modern Library Series." Studies in the Novel (Special issue on Willa Cather, ed. Andrew Jewell) 45.3 (2013): 476–99. Meltzer, Milton (2007). Willa Cather: A Biography. Buffalo, NY: Twenty-First Century Press. ISBN 978-0822576044. Woodress, James (1987). Willa Cather: A Literary Life. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-4734-5. Primary sources Cather, Willa, Andrew Jewell, and Janis Stout (2013). The Selected Letters of Willa Cather. NY: Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-95930-0. Howard, Jennifer. "Willa Cather in Her Own Words, at Last," Chronicle of Higher Education March 22, 2013] Cather, Willa, and L. Brent Bohlke (1990). Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0803263260. Cather, Willa (2009). The Collected Works of Willa Cather Unexpurgated Edition excerpt and text search Archival sources Willa Cather collection (27 linear feet) are housed at the University of Nebraska Willa Sibert Cather Papers, 1875–1955 (0.5 cubic feet) are housed at the Nebraska State Historical Society Papers of Willa Cather 1899–1949 (circa 290 items) are housed at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. Willa Cather Collection (32 linear feet) housed at Drew University External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Willa Cather. Wikiquote has quotations related to: Willa Cather Wikisource has original works written by or about: Willa Cather Western American Literature Journal: Willa Cather Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation in Red Cloud, Nebraska "Writings of Willa Cather" from C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History Radio piece on Cather's letters on NPR Willa Cather on IMDb Libraries[edit] Willa Cather Archive at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Willa Cather papers at Nebraska State Historical Society Willa Cather Collection at Drew University Willa Cather poems and biography at Academy of American Poets Inventory of the Willa Cather--Irene Miner Weisz Papers at Newberry Library Inventory of the Benjamin D. Hitz- Willa Cather Papers at Newberry Library Ann Safford Mandel collection of Willa Cather papers at the Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College Special Collections Online editions[edit] Works by Willa Cather at Project Gutenberg Works by Willa Cather at Faded Page (Canada) Works by or about Willa Cather at Internet Archive Works by Willa Cather at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Willa Cather at Poets' Corner v t e Works by Willa Cather Novels Alexander's Bridge O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark My Ántonia One of Ours A Lost Lady The Professor's House My Mortal Enemy Death Comes for the Archbishop Shadows on the Rock Lucy Gayheart Sapphira and the Slave Girl Short stories "Peter" "Lou, the Prophet" "The Elopement of Allen Poole" "A Tale of the White Pyramid" "A Son of the Celestial" "The Clemency of the Court" "The Fear That Walks by Noonday" "On the Divide" "A Night at Greenway Court" "Tommy, the Unsentimental" "The Princess Baladina – Her Adventure" "The Count of Crow's Nest" "The Burglar's Christmas" "The Strategy of the Were-Wolf Dog" "A Resurrection" "The Prodigies" "Nanette: An Aside" "The Way of the World" "The Westbound Train" "Eric Hermannson's Soul" "The Dance at Chevalier's" "The Sentimentality of William Tavener" "The Affair at Grover Station" "A Singer's Romance" "The Conversion of Sum Loo" "Jack-a-Boy" "El Dorado: A Kansas Recessional" "The Professor's Commencement" "The Treasure of Far Island" "A Death in the Desert" "A Wagner Matinee" "The Sculptor's Funeral" "Flavia and Her Artists" "The Garden Lodge" "The Marriage of Phaedra" "Paul's Case" "The Namesake" "The Profile" "The Willing Muse" "Eleanor's House" "On the Gulls' Road" "The Enchanted Bluff" "The Joy of Nelly Deane" "Behind the Singer Tower" "The Bohemian Girl" "Consequences" "The Bookkeeper's Wife" "The Diamond Mine" "A Gold Slipper" "Ardessa" "Scandal" "Her Boss" "Coming, Eden Bower!" 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