![]() ![]() ![]() From Jewett, Cather learned to write what she knew, to write about the land and the place that had formed her. While in Boston, she met the woman who would become her literary mentor – Sarah Orne Jewett, the author of The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896). ![]() (Like her male narrator, Cather was also born in Virginia, in Back Creek near Winchester, and moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska, when she was ten.)Īfter graduating from the University of Nebraska, Cather (1873-1947) left for the East Coast, where she worked as a journalist. ![]() He tells the story of Ántonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants to Nebraska. The third volume in her “prairie trilogy” (the first two being O Pioneers! and ), My Ántonia is told from the perspective of Jim Burden, who is ten years old and recently transplanted from Virginia to Nebraska at the beginning of the tale. Set in the fictional town of Black Hawk, Nebraska, in the late 19 th century, My Ántonia brings to life the experience of immigrants who settled the prairie. For Jennifer Soule on her birthday, the anniversary of the 1888 Children’s Blizzard.īrrr! With all the harsh winter weather spreading across the country, I can’t help but think of a classic winter scene in Willa Cather’s 1918 novel, My Ántonia (accent on the first syllable). ![]()
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