Willa Cather

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Standard Name: Cather, Willa
Birth Name: Wilella Cather
Self-constructed Name: Willa Cather
Self-constructed Name: Willa Love Cather
Self-constructed Name: Willa Sibert Cather
WC ranks as one of the major American novelists of the earlier twentieth century, and her popularity has remained undiminished while her critical reputation has fluctuated. She was a highly professional journalist and reviewer before she embarked on fiction, and she also published poetry, short stories, and ghosted biographies. Her fame rests on her rendering of the Midwest of pioneer days, but her strong imaginative sense of place also produced memorable novels with different geographical and historical settings.
Black and white, three-quarter-length photo of Willa Cather, c. 1912, sitting facing the camera with her hands on the arms of her Renaissance-style chair. She is wearing a hat with a turned-up brim holding a plume of white feathers; her blouse and jacket are black. She has a short pendant at her throat, and a long, tasselled necklace which came to her from Sarah Orne Jewett.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Katherine Mansfield
The Woolfs were eager to publish it. Virginia , who had encouraged Mansfield to get it finished,
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wrote of it in her diary: It has the living power, the detached existence of a work of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Storm Jameson
Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield , Conrad , Hardy , and James , along with Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis . However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Toni Morrison
Playing in the Dark shows a striking continuity with the thinking that underlies her novels. She sets out here to revise the teaching of US literature. She investigates the way that race functions as a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text A. S. Byatt
The writers considered (each for a single novel) are Jane Austen , Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot , Willa Cather (for nine of whose works ASB also wrote Virago introductions),
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Iris Murdoch , and Toni Morrison .

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Texts

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin, 1915.
Cather, Willa. The Troll Garden. McClure, Phillips, 1905.
Cather, Willa. Youth and the Bright Medusa. A. A. Knopf, 1920.