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Willa Cather

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Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 Cather's birth date is confirmed by a birth certificate and a January 22, 1874, letter of her father's referring to her. While working at McClure's Magazine, Cather claimed to be born in 1875. After 1920, she claimed 1876 as her birth year. That is the date carved into her gravestone at Jaffrey, New Hampshire. – April 24, 1947 Retrieved March 11, 2015.) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). [1]

152 relations: A Lost Lady, A Wagner Matinee, A. S. Byatt, Academy of American Poets, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, Alexander's Bridge, Alfred A. Knopf, Allegheny High School, American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Arts Commemorative Series medallions, American literature, American Writers: A Journey Through History, Annie Sadilek Pavelka, Antipope Benedict XIV, April Twilights, Avignon, Back Creek (Potomac River tributary), Bank Street (Manhattan), Baptists, Bay of Fundy, Blanche Knopf, Bohemian, Book of the Month Club, Brontë family, C-SPAN, Cadair Idris, Carl Van Doren, Charles Dickens, Christian Science, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Drew University, Dust Bowl, Edith Lewis, Edith Wharton, Edmund Wilson, Episcopal Church (United States), F. Scott Fitzgerald, Five Stories (short story collection), Frontier, George Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Gore, Virginia, Grand Manan, Granville Hicks, Great Depression, Great Plains, Greek Revival architecture, Green Mansions, Greenwich Village, ..., Gustave Flaubert, Gwynedd, H. L. Mencken, Henry James, Hermione Lee, Home Monthly, Honoré de Balzac, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Intracerebral hemorrhage, IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, James Joyce, Jan Hambourg, Jane Austen, Jews, Joseph Urgo, Katherine Mansfield, Ladies' Home Journal, Leo Tolstoy, Life (magazine), Lincoln Journal Star, Louise Pound, Lucy Gayheart, Madison, New Jersey, Manhattan, Mary Baker Eddy, McClure's, Modern Library 100 Best Novels, My Ántonia, My Mortal Enemy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, National Women's Hall of Fame, Nazi Germany, Nebraska, Nebraska Hall of Fame, Nebraska State Historical Society, Neighbour Rosicky, New Brunswick, New England, New York (state), New York City, New York City Subway, New York State Writers Hall of Fame, Norman architecture, NPR, O Pioneers!, Obscure Destinies, Olive Fremstad, One of Ours, Park Avenue, Paul's Case, PBS, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Leader, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Poets' Corner, Pulitzer Prize, Quebec, Queer theory, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Randolph Bourne, Red Cloud, Nebraska, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Sarah Orne Jewett, Shadows on the Rock, Sinclair Lewis, Stream of consciousness (narrative mode), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, The Atlantic, The Daily Nebraskan, The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Old Beauty and Others, The Professor's House, The Sculptor's Funeral, The Song of the Lark, The Troll Garden, The Washington Post, Thomas Carlyle, Thornton Wilder, Tommy, the Unsentimental, Toronto, Tuberculosis, United States, United States Mint, United States Postal Service, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, University of Virginia, Virginia, Virginia Women in History, Whale Cove, New Brunswick, Willa Cather Birthplace, Willa Cather Foundation, William Henry Hudson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Willow Shade, Winchester, Virginia, World War II, Yaltah Menuhin, Youth and the Bright Medusa. Expand index (102 more) »

A Lost Lady

Willa Cather's A Lost Lady was first published in 1923.

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A Wagner Matinee

"A Wagner Matinee" is a short story by Willa Cather.

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A. S. Byatt

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy HonFBA (née Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally as A. S. Byatt, is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner.

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Academy of American Poets

The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry.

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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia is a research library that specializes in American history and literature, history of Virginia and the southeastern United States, the history of the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, and the history and arts of the book.

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Alexander's Bridge

Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by American author Willa Cather.

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Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.

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Allegheny High School

The Allegheny High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a building from 1904.

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member honor society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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American Arts Commemorative Series medallions

American Arts Commemorative Series Medallions are a series of ten gold bullion medallions that were produced by the United States Mint from 1980 to 1984.

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American literature

American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and its preceding colonies (for specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States).

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American Writers: A Journey Through History

American Writers: A Journey Through History is a series produced and broadcast by C-SPAN in 2001 and 2002 that profiled selected American writers and their times.

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Annie Sadilek Pavelka

Anna (Annie) Sadilek Pavelka is most well known as the real life inspiration for the character Antonia Shimerda in Willa Cather's 1918 novel, My Ántonia.

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Antipope Benedict XIV

Benedict XIV was the name used by two closely related minor antipopes of the 15th century.

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April Twilights

April Twilights is a 1903 collection of poems by Willa Cather.

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Avignon

Avignon (Avenio; Provençal: Avignoun, Avinhon) is a commune in south-eastern France in the department of Vaucluse on the left bank of the Rhône river.

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Back Creek (Potomac River tributary)

Back Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Bank Street (Manhattan)

Bank Street is a primarily residential street in the West Village part of Greenwich Village in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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Bay of Fundy

The Bay of Fundy (or Fundy Bay; Baie de Fundy) is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the US state of Maine.

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Blanche Knopf

Blanche Wolf Knopf (July 30, 1894 – June 4, 1966) was the president of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and wife of publisher Alfred Knopf, with whom she established the firm in 1915.

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Bohemian

A Bohemian is a resident of Bohemia, a region of the Czech Republic or the former Kingdom of Bohemia, a region of the former Crown of Bohemia (lands of the Bohemian Crown).

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Book of the Month Club

The Book of the Month Club (founded 1926) is a United States subscription-based e-commerce service that offers a selection of five new hardcover books each month to its members.

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Brontë family

The Brontës (commonly) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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C-SPAN

C-SPAN, an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service.

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Cadair Idris

Cadair Idris or Cader Idris is a mountain in Gwynedd, Wales, which lies at the southern end of the Snowdonia National Park near the town of Dolgellau.

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Carl Van Doren

Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10, 1885 – July 18, 1950) was an American critic and biographer.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Christian Science

Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices belonging to the metaphysical family of new religious movements.

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Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather.

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Drew University

Drew University is a private university in Madison, New Jersey.

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Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.

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Edith Lewis

Edith Lewis (December 22, 1881–August 11, 1972) was a magazine editor at ''McClure's Magazine'', the managing editor of Every Week Magazine, and an advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson Co. Lewis was Willa Cather's domestic partner and was named executor of Cather's literary estate in Willa Cather's will.

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer.

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Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer and critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes.

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church is the United States-based member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age.

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Five Stories (short story collection)

Five Stories is a collection of stories, published in 1956 by the Estate of Willa Cather, after the author's death.

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Frontier

A frontier is the political and geographical area near or beyond a boundary.

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George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector.

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Gore, Virginia

Gore is an unincorporated community in western Frederick County, Virginia, United States located off the Northwestern Turnpike on Gore Road (SR 751) west of Winchester.

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Grand Manan

Grand Manan Island (also simply Grand Manan) is a Canadian island, and the largest of the Fundy Islands in the Bay of Fundy.

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Granville Hicks

Granville Hicks (September 9, 1901 - June 18, 1982) was an American Marxist as well as an anti-Marxist novelist, literary critic, educator, and editor.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Great Plains

The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.

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Greek Revival architecture

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States.

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Green Mansions

Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904) is an exotic romance by William Henry Hudson about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.

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Gwynedd

Gwynedd is a county in Wales, sharing borders with Powys, Conwy, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, and Ceredigion over the River Dyfi.

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H. L. Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English.

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Henry James

Henry James, OM (–) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

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Hermione Lee

Dame Hermione Lee, DBE, FBA, FRSL (born 29 February 1948, Winchester) is President of Wolfson College, Oxford, and was lately Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford and professorial fellow of New College.

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Home Monthly

Home Monthly was a monthly women's magazine published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the late 19th century.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an educational and trade publisher in the United States.

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Intracerebral hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, is a type of intracranial bleed that occurs within the brain tissue or ventricles.

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IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line

The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (also known as the IRT Seventh Avenue Line or the IRT West Side Line) is a New York City Subway line.

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Jaffrey, New Hampshire

Jaffrey is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet.

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Jan Hambourg

Jan Hambourg (27 August 1882 –29 September 1947) was a Russian violinist, a member of a famous musical family, who made his career in Europe during the early 20th century.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Joseph Urgo

Joe Urgo is Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina Asheville.

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Katherine Mansfield

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.

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Ladies' Home Journal

Ladies' Home Journal is an American magazine published by the Meredith Corporation.

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Leo Tolstoy

Count Lyov (also Lev) Nikolayevich Tolstoy (also Лев) Николаевич ТолстойIn Tolstoy's day, his name was written Левъ Николаевичъ Толстой.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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Lincoln Journal Star

The Lincoln Journal Star is a daily newspaper that serves Lincoln, Nebraska, It is the most widely read newspaper in Lincoln and the second-largest in Nebraska (after the Omaha World-Herald).

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Louise Pound

Louise Pound (June 30, 1872 – June 27, 1958) was a distinguished American folklorist, linguist, and college professor at the University of Nebraska.

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Lucy Gayheart

Lucy Gayheart is Willa Cather's eleventh novel.

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Madison, New Jersey

Madison is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Mary Baker Eddy

Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) established the Church of Christ, Scientist, as a Christian denomination and worldwide movement of spiritual healers.

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McClure's

McClure's or McClure's Magazine (1893–1929) was an American illustrated monthly periodical popular at the turn of the 20th century.

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Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Modern Library's 100 Best Novels is a list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the Modern Library, an American publishing company owned by Random House.

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My Ántonia

My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works.

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My Mortal Enemy

My Mortal Enemy is the eighth novel by American author Willa Cather.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (né Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer.

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National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is located in Fort Worth, Texas, US.

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National Women's Hall of Fame

The National Women's Hall of Fame is an American institution created in 1969 by a group of people in Seneca Falls, New York, the location of the 1848 women's rights convention.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.

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Nebraska Hall of Fame

The Nebraska Hall of Fame officially recognizes prominent individuals from the State of Nebraska.

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Nebraska State Historical Society

History Nebraska, formally the Nebraska State Historical Society is a Nebraska state agency, founded in 1878 to "encourage historical research and inquiry, spread historical information...

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Neighbour Rosicky

"Neighbour Rosicky" is a short story by Willa Cather.

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New Brunswick

New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick; Canadian French pronunciation) is one of three Maritime provinces on the east coast of Canada.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

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New York State Writers Hall of Fame

The New York State Writers Hall of Fame or NYS Writers Hall of Fame is a project established in 2010 by the Empire State Center for the Book and the Empire State Book Festival and headquartered at the New York State Library in Albany, New York.

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Norman architecture

The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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O Pioneers!

O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York.

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Obscure Destinies

Obscure Destinies is a collection of three short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1932.

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Olive Fremstad

Olive Fremstad (14 March 1871 – 21 April 1951) was the stage name of Anna Olivia Rundquist, a celebrated Swedish-American opera diva who sang in both the mezzo-soprano and soprano ranges.

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One of Ours

One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather that won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.

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Park Avenue

Park Avenue is a wide New York City boulevard which carries north and southbound traffic in the borough of Manhattan.

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Paul's Case

"Paul's Case: A Study in Temperament" is a short story by Willa Cather.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Pittsburgh Leader

The Pittsburgh Leader was a major newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, operating from 1864 to 1923.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the "PG", is the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Poets' Corner

Poets' Corner is the name traditionally given to a section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey because of the high number of poets, playwrights, and writers buried and commemorated there.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Queer theory

Queer theory is a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

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Randolph Bourne

Randolph Silliman Bourne (May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was a progressive writer and intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University.

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Red Cloud, Nebraska

Red Cloud is a city in and the county seat of Webster County, Nebraska, United States.

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Sapphira and the Slave Girl

Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940.

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Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine.

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Shadows on the Rock

Shadows on the Rock is a novel by the American writer Willa Cather, published in 1931.

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Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.

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Stream of consciousness (narrative mode)

In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode or method that attempts to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind.

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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is an American dictionary of English published by Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Daily Nebraskan

The Daily Nebraskan, established in 1871 as the Monthly Hesperian Student, is the student newspaper of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science

The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science was published in November 1909 in New York by Doubleday, Page & Company.

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The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Old Beauty and Others

The Old Beauty and Others is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1948.

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The Professor's House

The Professor's House is a novel by American novelist Willa Cather.

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The Sculptor's Funeral

"The Sculptor's Funeral" is a short story by Willa Cather.

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The Song of the Lark

The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915.

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The Troll Garden

The Troll Garden is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1905.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, translator, historian, mathematician, and teacher.

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Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.

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Tommy, the Unsentimental

Tommy, the Unsentimental is a short story by Willa Cather.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Mint

The United States Mint is the agency that produces circulating coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce, as well as controlling the movement of bullion.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, often referred to as Nebraska, UNL or NU, is a public research university in the city of Lincoln, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.

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University of Virginia

The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Virginia Women in History

Virginia Women in History is an annual program sponsored by the Library of Virginia that honors eight Virginia women, living and dead, for their contributions to their community, region, state, and nation.

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Whale Cove, New Brunswick

Whale Cove is a cove on Grand Manan Island in North Head, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Willa Cather Birthplace

The Willa Cather Birthplace, also known as the Rachel E. Boak House, is the site near Gore, Frederick County, Virginia, where the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather was born in 1873.

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Willa Cather Foundation

The Willa Cather Foundation is an American not-for-profit organization, headquartered in Red Cloud, Nebraska, dedicated to preserving the archives and settings associated with Willa Cather (1873–1947), a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and promoting the appreciation of her work.

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William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist.

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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist and author.

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Willow Shade

Willow Shade, also known as the Willa Cather House, is a historic home located near Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia.

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Winchester, Virginia

Winchester is an independent city located in the northwestern portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yaltah Menuhin

Yaltah Menuhin (7 October 1921 – 9 June 2001) was an American-born British pianist, artist and poet.

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Youth and the Bright Medusa

Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1920.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather

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