Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, 2003, pp. 9-39.
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Edith Lewis
Standard Name: Lewis, Edith
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Willa Cather | WC
, who as an adolescent cross-dressed, gave herself a male name, and nurtured passionate youthful crushes on persons of her own sex, has been enthusiastically claimed in a more outspoken age as a lesbian... |
| death | Willa Cather | She was buried at Jaffrey, New Hampshire, with a gravestone which gave her date of birth three years later than it was, as 7 December 1876. Edith Lewis
was later buried at her feet. Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago, 1989. 73 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Willa Cather | In 1908 Cather set up house in New York with Edith Lewis
, and their lives became closely intertwined. Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, 2003, pp. 9-39. 34 |
| Friends, Associates | Willa Cather | In 1903 WC
met Edith Lewis
, who was to become another especially close friend and then her life companion, who apparently accepted gladly the role of servant to Cather's creative achievement. In Boston she... |
| Residence | Willa Cather | Also during 1927, when their building on Bank Street, New York, was demolished to make room for expanding subway construction, she and Edith Lewis
moved to a new home in the Grosvenor Hotel... |
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