Name/TitleWilla Cather and Her Critics
MakerSchroeter, James
Maker RoleEditor
About this objectHardback book with orange/tan covers titled 'Willa Cather and Her Critics'
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, board and paper
MeasurementsH: 235 x W: 158 x D: 30 mm
Date Made1967
PeriodEarly 20th century
Place MadeUSA, Ithica NY
Place NotesCornell University Press, Ithica, New York
PublisherCornell University Press
Publication Date1967
Publication PlaceUSA, Ithica NY
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather:
Willa Sibert Cather (/ˈkæðər/;[1] born Wilella Sibert Cather;[2] December 7, 1873[A] – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
Willa Cather and her family moved from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska, when she was nine years old. The family later settled in the town of Red Cloud. Shortly after graduating from the University of Nebraska, Cather moved to Pittsburgh for 10 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. She spent the last 39 years of her life with her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, before being diagnosed with breast cancer and dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. Cather and Lewis are buried together in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
Cather achieved recognition as a novelist of the frontier and pioneer experience. She wrote of the spirit of those settlers moving into the western states, many of them European immigrants in the 19th century. Common themes in her work include nostalgia and exile. A sense of place is an important element in her fiction: landscapes and domestic spaces become dynamic presences, against which her characters struggle and find community [continues].
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's history
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's writing & literature
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBook
Object numberGWL-2025-86-4
Spine LabelSCHROETER EDITOR ~ Willa Cather and Her Critics ~ CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
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