A Study Guide for Willa Sibert Cather's \"The Diamond Mine,\" excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
A brief description of Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather (1931). This novel is an imaginative view of Quebec in the 17th century.
Alex Ross on how Nebraska’s landscape inspired the great American novelist Willa Cather.
Willa Cather, in full Wilella Sibert Cather, (born December 7, 1873, near Winchester, Virginia, U.S.—died April 24, 1947, New York City, New York), American novelist noted for her portrayals of the settlers and frontier life on the American plains. At age 9 Cather moved with her family from Virginia to frontier Nebraska, where from age 10 she lived in the village of Red Cloud. There she grew up among the immigrants from Europe—Swedes, Bohemians, Russians, and Germans—who were breaking the land on the Great Plains. At the University of Nebraska she showed a marked talent for journalism and story writing,
About Willa Cather Hermione Lee’s provocative and influential biography provides a sensitive reappraisal of a marvelous and often underrated writer. The Willa Cather she reveals here was a Nebraskan who spent much of her life in self-imposed exile from the prairies she celebrated in O Pioneers! and My Antonia , a woman whose life was riddled with the tension between masculine and feminine, and a writer whose naturalness of style disguised exquisite artistry. By exposing the contradictions that lie at the heart of much of Cather’s life and work, Lee locates new layers of meaning and places her firmly at the forefront of the modern literary tradition that was taking shape in her time.
Alex Ross on Willa Cather’s war novel “One of Ours,” from 1922, which merged the flu pandemic of 1918 and the First World War into a general season of death.
About The Selected Letters of Willa Cather Time Magazine ‘s 10 Top Nonfiction Books of the Year • Willa Cather’s letters—withheld from publication for more than six decades—are finally available to the public in this fascinating selection. The hundreds collected here range from witty reports of life as a teenager in Red Cloud in the 1880s through her college years at the University of Nebraska, her time as a journalist in Pittsburgh and New York, and her growing eminence as a novelist. They describe her many travels and record her last years, when the loss of loved ones and the disasters of World War II brought her near to despair. Above all, they reveal her passionate interest in people, literature, and the arts. The voice is one we recognize from her fiction: confident, elegant, detailed, openhearted, concerned with profound ideas, but also at times sentimental, sarcastic, and funny. A deep pleasure to read, this volume reveals the intimate joys and sorrows of one of America’s most admired writers.
Publishes books and journals especially in American history, the American West, and Native American studies.
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Willa Cather, in full Wilella Sibert Cather, (born December 7, 1873, near Winchester, Virginia, U.S.--died April 24, 1947, New York City, New York), American novelist noted for her portrayals of the settlers and frontier life on the American plains. ... Cather's first novel, Alexander's Bridge (1912), was a factitious story of cosmopolitan life. Under the influence of Sarah Orne Jewett's regionalism, however, she turned to her familiar Nebraska material. With O Pioneers! (1913) and My ?ntonia (1918), which has frequently been adjudged her finest achievement, she found her characteristic themes--the spirit and courage of the frontier she had known in her youth. One of Ours (1922), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and A Lost Lady (1923) mourned the passing of the pioneer spirit. In her earlier Song of the Lark (1915), as well as in the tales assembled in Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920), including the much-anthologized "Paul's Case," and Lucy Gayheart (1935), Cather reflected the other side of her experience--the struggle of a talent to emerge from the constricting life of the prairies and the stifling effects of small-town life. A mature statement of both themes can be found in Obscure Destinies (1932). With success and middle age, however, Cather experienced a strong disillusionment, which was reflected in The Professor's House (1925) and her essays Not Under Forty (1936). Her solution was to write of the pioneer spirit of another age, that of the French Catholic missionaries in the Southwest in Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) and of the French Canadians at Quebec in Shadows on the Rock (1931). For the setting of her last novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), she used the Virginia of her ancestors and her childhood. ... (britannica.com) | Author: Willa Cather | Publisher: Bibliotech Press | Publication Date: January 06, 2020 | Number of Pages: 196 pages | Language: English | Binding: Hardcover | ISBN-10: 1618957902 | ISBN-13: 9781618957900
Louise Pound and Willa Cather, 1890s (Photo Credit: Willa Cather Archive at the University of Nebraska.)
Thank you! Well, here we are at the end of Phase One of the Willa Cather Short Story Project. Thank you to everyone who has participated over the last twenty months! Some folks like Kate and Robin have read along for all the stories and others have dropped in here and there. I’ve appreciated all […]
“Smashes,” “crushes,” “spoons,” and other curious 19th-century relationship varieties.
In the years that predate “My Ántonia,” before receiving her Pulitzer Prize and notoriety as one of the Great Plains’ most established female writers, Willa Cather was a college student; a bright-eyed classics scholar at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
These response posts assume you have read the story under discussion, so there are often spoilers . . . such is the case with this post. Leslie dies! I did not see that coming. Did you? Perhaps I didn’t see it coming because of the setup for this story in the reminder post I wrote […]
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Obscure Destinies Is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1932. Willa Sibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.
Willa Cather had a fierce love/hate relationship with fame. She courted it in her youth, but was conflicted once it arrived.
Mildred Bennett sparked a preservation movement in author Willa Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska.
Here's a gallery of classic women authors in men's clothing, expressing their masculine side. Including George Sand, Willa Cather, Radclyffe Hall, and more.
“I can’t but believe that all that majesty and all that beauty, those fated and unfailing appearances and exits, are something more than mathematics and horrible temperatures.”
Charles Cather made the bequest to support the university’s leading initiatives focused on his aunt’s literary works and life.
Here’s a sampling of writing wisdom by Willa Cather, excerpted from interviews she granted between 1915 and the mid-1920s.
Here's a gallery of portraits of some of our favorite women authors as children, proving that they started out just like the rest of us mere mortals!
A beloved Robert Frost poem is among the many creations that are (finally) losing their protections in 2019
“Before Breakfast” by Willa Cather is the last story in the posthumously published collection, The Old Beauty and Others (1948). It’s a tight nugget of a story about a successful middle-aged businessman who escapes his work and family for a solo summer vacation at his island cottage. I mentioned in the reminder post for this […]
The Road is All Willa Cather wrote about the lives of early Nebraska pioneers in such books as O PIONEERS! (1913) and MY ANTONIA (1918). This is an
