Skinner's Second Edition Willa Cather Notecards

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Willa Cather lived in the state of Nebraska from 1883 to 1906.

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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Before Cather lived in Red Cloud, known to be the only town she lived in, she lived in the the county of Webster

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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Many of the people written about in Cather's writing were based on her aqaintances in Red Cloud

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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Many of the scenery described so vivedly in Cather's writing were based on the city of Red Cloud.

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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While attending the University of Nebraska, Cather was a drama critic for the Lincoln journal.

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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Cather worked for Home Monthly and the Daily Leader in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and later taught English and Latin at Allegheny, Pennsylvania.

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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Upon moving to New York, Cather became the leading magazine editor of McClure's Magazines.

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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After graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1895, Cather continued her education and recieved a doctorate of letters at the University in 1917.

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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Cather also recieved honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, and from Columbia, Yale, and Princeton.

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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Cather won the Gold Metal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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Cather's novel, A Lost Lady, was made into a silent movie in 1925 and premiered in Red Cloud, Nebraska.

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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Another movie version of A Lost Lady was made in 1934.

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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In 1961, Cather was the first woman voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame.

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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Cather was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Olklahoma City, Olklahoma in 1974

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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Cather was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame at Seneca, New York in 1988.

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"Willa Siebert Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/
cather.html>.

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Willa Cather published her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, in 1912

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"Biography Willa Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/
biography.htm#Debut:%20heroic%20women>.

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Cather never had any romantic interest in men and her emotional life centered around women, but the women in her novels mostly seen in the eyes of men.

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"Biography Willa Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/
biography.htm#Debut:%20heroic%20women>.

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Cather lived with Edith Lewis, another Nebraskan whom she had met in 1903.

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"Biography Willa Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/
biography.htm#Debut:%20heroic%20women>.

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Cather become distressed with the world around her and was troubled by the growing mechanization and mass-produced quality of American society.

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"Biography Willa Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/
biography.htm#Debut:%20heroic%20women>.

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Around the time of the year of 1922, Cather's writing took a new direction and become more concerned with fiding alternative values to the materialistic life she increasingly felt around her.

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"Biography Willa Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/
biography.htm#Debut:%20heroic%20women>.

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Both novels around this time, A Lost Lady (1923) and The Professor's House (1925)deal with spiritual and cultural crisis for the main characters.

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"Biography Willa Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/
biography.htm#Debut:%20heroic%20women>.

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Cather's frustration with modern society and the sense of spiritual decay were reflected when she entered the Episcopal Church in 1922.

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"Biography Willa Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/
biography.htm#Debut:%20heroic%20women>.

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In 1926, Cather's writing once again changes changes themes resulting in the vanished past of the American southwest where nature and Christianity is opposed to modern urban life and society.

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"Biography Willa Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/
biography.htm#Debut:%20heroic%20women>.

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This change is seen in her novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop.

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"Biography Willa Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/
biography.htm#Debut:%20heroic%20women>.

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Cather's critical view of the present versus the past became more and more acknowledged as she grew older.

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"Biography Willa Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/
biography.htm#Debut:%20heroic%20women>.

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Alongside her fictional writing, Cather was also an accomplished literary critic who produced an extensive body of critical work on the nature of art and its function in life.

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"Biography Willa Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/
biography.htm#Debut:%20heroic%20women>.

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Generally, Cather's main focus is the description of character over plot, but not at all with the same stress on subjectivity that characterized other women writers of the time.

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"Biography Willa Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/
biography.htm#Debut:%20heroic%20women>.

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Cather’s style is very condensed, almost minimalistic – she often described her work as "unfurnished" – which gives a sense of ‘top of the iceberg’ quality.

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"Biography Willa Cather." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/
biography.htm#Debut:%20heroic%20women>.

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Cather once said that she belonged to a world that had split in two and, as a woman of two centuries-- the conservative nineteenth and the twentieth.

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"Willa Cather Domestic Goddess." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.womenwriters.net/
domesticgoddess/cather1.htm>.

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Cather was the eldest child of seven.

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"Willa Cather Domestic Goddess." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.womenwriters.net/
domesticgoddess/cather1.htm>.

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Cather understood the coming change between cultures; she saw the immigrant children moving away from the culture of their parents and into a kind of uneasy Americanism.

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"Willa Cather Domestic Goddess." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.womenwriters.net/
domesticgoddess/cather1.htm>.

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Cather also wrote extensively about her own writing.

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"Willa Cather Domestic Goddess." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.womenwriters.net/
domesticgoddess/cather1.htm>.

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Cather speaks of nature, but she also writes the most intimate pictures of the inner setting - the heart, the soul, the home.

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"Willa Cather Domestic Goddess." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.womenwriters.net/
domesticgoddess/cather1.htm>.

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Much of the criticism of Cather in the past has focused on the primacy of landscape, including the Nebraska plains and New Mexico, in Cather's work.

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"Willa Cather Domestic Goddess." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.womenwriters.net/
domesticgoddess/cather1.htm>.

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Cather's work is not so much about "the prairie" but about the humans who lived there, and the human relationships that followed.

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"Willa Cather Domestic Goddess." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.womenwriters.net/
domesticgoddess/cather1.htm>.

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Cather's work often comments on the arts - on music, on painting, on all expressions of the impulse to create.

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"Willa Cather Domestic Goddess." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.womenwriters.net/
domesticgoddess/cather1.htm>.

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Her work is sometimes romantic, sometimes naturalistic, but always, it compels discussion and thought.

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"Willa Cather Domestic Goddess." Willa Cather. 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.womenwriters.net/
domesticgoddess/cather1.htm>.

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Cather's carefully crafted prose conveys vivid pictures of the American landscape and the people it molded.

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"Willa Sibert Cather Encyclopedia Article." MSN Encarta. Online Education Info and Resources . 18
Jan. 2005 <http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571395/Cather_Willa_Sibert.html>.

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Cather was influenced by the prose of the American regional writer Sarah Orne Jewett.

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"Willa Sibert Cather Encyclopedia Article." MSN Encarta. Online Education Info and Resources . 18
Jan. 2005 <http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571395/Cather_Willa_Sibert.html>.

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From her college years on, Cather wrote short stories and poetry; her first published book was a collection of verse, April Twilights (1903)

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"Willa Sibert Cather Encyclopedia Article." MSN Encarta. Online Education Info and Resources . 18
Jan. 2005 <http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571395/Cather_Willa_Sibert.html>.

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Cather's first published prose was a group of stories, The Troll Garden (1905).

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"Willa Sibert Cather Encyclopedia Article." MSN Encarta. Online Education Info and Resources . 18
Jan. 2005 <http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571395/Cather_Willa_Sibert.html>.

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In Cather's early books her theme is the contrast between encroaching urbanization and the achievements of the pioneers, such novels as One of Ours.

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"Cather, Willa Sibert," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2005
http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved

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Cather creates strong, determined female characters, many of whom encounter difficulty relating to a society that expects women to be dependent on others.

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"Cather, Willa Sibert," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2005
http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved

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Death Comes for the Archbishop is consdered Cather's greatest novel (1927)

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"Cather, Willa Sibert," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2005
http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved

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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.

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"Willa Sibert Cather." Women in American Hisotry By Encyclopedia Britannica. 19 Jan. 2005
<http://womenshistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://search.eb.com/women/articles/
Cather%5FWilla%5FSibert.html>.

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Cahter wrote of the pioneer spirit of another age, that of the French Catholic missionaries in the Southwest in Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

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"Willa Sibert Cather." Women in American Hisotry By Encyclopedia Britannica. 19 Jan. 2005
<http://womenshistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://search.eb.com/women/articles/
Cather%5FWilla%5FSibert.html>.