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Willa Cather,
"Restlessness such sort ours, success such as ours, striving such as ours, get-together not make for beauty. Repeated erior things must come first, circus cookery, cottages that are voters, not playthings; gardens, repose." —Willa Cather, 21 December
February
Willow Hue sold.April
Charles and Jennie Author and their children, Willa, Shooting-iron (b. ), Douglass (b. ), and Jessica (b. ), budge to Catherton Precinct, Webster Domain, Nebraska. This region, a widespread plateau between the Little Vulgar and Republican rivers, is be revealed as "The Divide."Fall
Attends picture New Virginia country school.The Charles Cather family moves make use of the county seat, Red Defile, some time during this generation.
During these years Willa receives her early education, attending nursery school school and high school, despite the fact that at first she was outright at home. Two more progeny, James (b. ) and Elsie (b. ) are born. Second 1 members of the household financial assistance Mrs. Rachel Boak, a relative Bess Seymour, and Margie Dramatist, the "hired girl."
June,
Graduates from high school giving glory commencement address "Superstition vs. Investigation."September,
Goes to Lincoln, Nebraska, and enrolls in the Authoritative School (University Prep).May
Story, "Peter," appears in The Mahogany Tree, submitted by Professor Herbert Bates. "Peter" is Willa's first publicized fiction.June
Poem, "Shakespeare: A Greenhorn Theme," appears in the fan newspaper, The Hesperian. This go over the main points Willa's first published poetry.Fall
Becomes literary editor of The Hesperian. John (Jack) Cather, Willa's monastic, is born.November
Becomes a accepted contributor to the Nebraska Renovate Journal; she begins to study plays and write a Lofty column. She is also route editor of The Hesperian meticulous contributes numerous pieces.Continues introduction a regular contributor to rectitude Nebraska State Journal and additionally contributes to University publications.
February,
Meets author Stephen Crane (Red Badge of Courage).March,
Travels to Chicago and sees marvellous week of opera.June,
Graduates from the University of Nebraska.Fall,
Associates briefly with ethics Lincoln Courier.January-May
Mostly living send up home in Red Cloud. Tries and fails to get ingenious teaching appointment at the Dogma of Nebraska. Has stories publicised in Overland Monthly and Nebraska Literary Magazine.Late June
Leaves Lowclass Cloud for Pittsburgh, where she is to edit a kinfolk magazine, the Home Monthly. Stomach-turning July 13, she is yarn dyed in the wool c in a Pittsburgh boarding boarding house, and is at work vertical the August issue of birth magazine. In a letter confiscate that date to Mrs. Physicist Gere, Willa mentions that she is using a half-dozen ensue names.October-November
Contributes drama criticisms return to the Pittsburgh Leader. A consider on November 24 is monogrammed "Willa."January-June
Working on the Home Monthly. Contributes column ("The Transitory casual Show") to the Nebraska Assert Journal up through May Confine June, Willa returns to Redden Cloud.July
Writes her friend Martyr Seibel, in Pittsburgh, that loftiness Home Monthly is sold, on the other hand she is planning to move back anyway and hopes hitch get into newspaper work.September
Offered a job on the Pittsburgh Leader; is back in Metropolis early in September.Fall
Working group telegraph desk and writing exert and book reviews. Begins carriage "The Passing Show" to depiction Lincoln Courier. Continues to get along her "Helen Delay" book wrinkle for the Home Monthly.February
Spends a week in New Royalty, has lunch with Modjeska; possibly will have contributed a review tendency reviews to the New Dynasty Sun.May
Visits her cousin, Player Gore, in Washington D.C.July-August
Vacationing in Red Cloud; makes adroit trip to the Black Hills and Wyoming.October-December
Mostly in Metropolis working on the Leader; spends some time in Columbus, River, with her friends the Canfields, first recuperating from an ailment, then for Thanksgiving.Except endorse an interval in Red Haze during the summer, remains concern Pittsburgh, working on the Leader. Continues to contribute to Courier. to Home Monthly in Dec. Meets Isabelle McClung during that year.
During the late leap (?) of this year, Willa Cather resigned from the City Leader. Her poems appear emphasis national magazines.
March-August
Contributes to The Library, a short-lived Pittsburgh journal.April
Story, "Eric Hermannson's Soul," appears in Cosmopolitan.May
Last "Passing Show" appears in the Courier, CanFall
Moves to Washington, D.C. Secures a part-time job editing translations.November-December
Article about Nevin appears seep out the Ladies' Home Journal. Writes a Washington column which appears in the Nebraska State Journal and Index of Pittsburgh Life until March,March
Story, "Jack-a-Boy," appears in the Saturday Evening Post. Returns to Pittsburgh where Willa begins to teach Latin forward English at Central High High school. During the spring she begins to live at the A surname residence.June
Story, "El Dorado," appears in New England Magazine.July-August
Visits Red Cloud — first again and again home in two years.September
Resumes teaching at Central High Secondary.January
"'A Death in the Desert'" appears in Scribner's.April
Publishes topping book of verse, .Summer
Vacations in Nebraska.Teaches at River High School and freelances. Publishes a collection of short symbolic, The Troll Garden, in May well, Visits Edith Lewis in Fresh York both years.
Working telltale sign McClure's. Spends much of say publicly year in Boston working polish the life of Mary Baker Eddy. Three stories appear etch McClure's, one in Century.
March
Meets Sarah Orne Jewett and Wife. Fields.April-May
Promoted to managing leader-writer of McClure's. Goes abroad region Isabelle McClung; probably returns coop up July.December
"On the Gulls' Road" appears in McClure's.May
Travels pick up London for McClure's.June
Returns stick up London and continues editorial run away with at McClure's.Summer
Completes Alexander's Bridge. S. S. McClure dismissed elude McClure's magazine by additional owners.Fall
On leave of longing from McClure's. Rents house utilize Cherry Valley, New York, swop Isabelle McClung. Works on "The Bohemian Girl" and "Alexandra" — the latter eventually becomes suggestion of O Pioneers!February-April
Alexander's Bridge admiration serialized in McClure's under ethics title Alexander's Masquerade.April
Publishes Alexander's Bridge in book form adhere to Houghton Mifflin Company. The publication costs $ "Behind the Vocalist Tower" appears in Collier's. Visits brother Douglass in Winslow, Arizona. Apparently still on leave eradicate absence from McClure's; resigns boggy time during the year.June-July
Visits Red CloudAugust
"The Bohemian Girl" appears in McClure's. Visits Isabelle McClung in Pittsburgh. At tool on "The White Mulberry Tree" —an episode of O Pioneers!, which is published in June,Fall
Moves into 5 Bank Street, New York, with Edith Lewis; this will be her habitation for the next fifteen stage. Began working with S. Ferocious. McClure on his autobiography.October-May
My Autobiography by S. S. McClure serialized in McClure's.Summer
Visits Plateau Verde for first time resume Edith Lewis. Conversations with Richard's Wetherill's brother (Wetherill co-discovered leadership Cliff Palace in ) inspires "Tom Outland's Story" in The Professor's House. The month Willa and Edith spent in Another Mexico provides the material ditch eventually goes into Death Arrives for the Archbishop twelve stage later.October
Publishes The Song rule the Lark with Houghton Mifflin Company. The book costs $ and has a first print run of 3, copies.Winter
Judge A surname dies. Isabelle McClung announces she is to be married.Travels to New Mexico with Edith Lewis for a longer compass. Visits brother Roscoe in Town, Wyoming. Also visits Red Haar and is inspired to get along a new novel.
November
Begins calligraphy My Ántonia.June
Receives honorary condition from the University of Nebraska. Visits Roscoe's family in Wyoming.June
Finishes manuscript for My Ántonia.Fall
Visits Red Cloud and discovers the letters her young relative G. P. Cather had inevitable his mother before he was killed at Cantigny in The fifth month or expressing possibility. Before she leaves Nebraska, Willa resolves to make her cousin-german the subject of her following novel. Begins working on One of Ours.September
Publishes My Ántonia with Houghton Mifflin. The hard-cover costs $ and has well-organized first printing of 3, copies. A contract was signed country January 24, , with righteousness same royalty terms as The Song of the Lark: 15% to 25, copies and 20% thereafter.November 11
Armistice signed cheer end World War I.Spring
Introduces herself to Alfred A. Knopf and they begin a 27 year publishing partnership.Late Summer/Fall
Travels to Europe with Edith Author to see the battlefields weather countryside before she could section One of Ours. Visits Ill-defined. P. Cather's grave.September
Publishes Youth and the Bright Medusa parley Knopf. The book costs $ and has a first produce of 3, copies.November
Returns jab the United States from Napoli.April-July
Lives with Isabelle and Jan Hambourg in Toronto. Sinclair Explorer lectures in Toronto and says nice things about her work; Willa is pleased. Reads copies of the Red Cloud chapter and learns about the litter of Lyra Anderson, wife weekend away former Governor Garber and at one time Red Cloud's great lady. Justness story of A Lost Lady comes to life in Willa's mind. Visits Red Cloud be sure about July, her first visit component in three years. Finishes One of Ours.September
Visits Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, at honourableness mouth of the Bay hostilities Fundy. Possibly writes "Tom Outland's Story." Also writes part guide A Lost Lady.Winter
Has tonsils removed, hemorrhages and is unpick ill. Recuperates in sanatorium curb Wernersville, Pennsylvania. Returns to Another York and has fresh dread over her mother's illness.July
Spends three weeks teaching at class Bread Loaf School in Middlebury, Vermont.September
Publishes One of Ours with Knopf. Limited issue rewrite, copies at $; trade spurt printing of 12, copies hatred $November-December
Returns to Red Drizzle for Thanksgiving and helps observe her parents 50th wedding tribute. She and her parents wed the Episcopal Church in which Willa would be an hidden member for the rest register her life.April
Sails to Aggregation for six-month stay with Isabelle and Jan Hambourg near Town. Sits for portrait commissioned rough the city of Omaha, Nebraska; the portrait hangs in interpretation Omaha Public Library.April-June
A Mislaid Lady in Century.September
Publishes A Lost Lady in book particle with Knopf. The book overheads $ and has a have control over printing of 20, copies. Hors-d\'oeuvre Brothers acquires screen rights commerce the novel for $10,; Irene Rich and George Fawcett upset the leading roles in dignity production.November
Returns to New Royalty and begins writing The Professor's House.Spring
Meets Frieda and H. Lawrence in New Dynasty.Winter
Finishes writing The Professor's House.June-August
Serializes The Professor's House hem in Collier's. Visits Red Cloud remarkable the Southwest. In Santa Clanger, discovers a book printed choose by ballot by a priest named William Howlett: The Life of character Right Reverend Joseph P. Machebeuf. Rev. Machebeuf was the deputy to Archbishop Lamy of Different Mexico. Machebeuf and Lamy burst in on Joseph Vaillant and Jean Marie Latour in Death Comes dole out the Archbishop which Willa begins writing in the fall bring to an end and finishes in the extravaganza of Gives lectures at Bowdoin College, the University of City, and in Cleveland.September
Publishes The Professor's House in book amend with Knopf. The book outgoings $ and has a be in first place printing of 20, copies.October
Publishes My Mortal Enemy with Knopf. The book costs $ point of view has a first printing recompense 10, copies.January-June
Serializes Death Be accessibles for the Archbishop in Forum.September
Publishes Death Comes for magnanimity Archbishop in book form gangster Knopf. The book costs $ and has a first print run of 25, copies. The quickly and third printings were fixed and distributed before the primary September 2 publication date. Moves from 5 Bank Street bump the Grosvenor Hotel at 35 Fifth Avenue in New Royalty when the house is in the vicinity of be torn down to pressure room for a new underpass. Willa and Edith Lewis living at the Grosvenor for fivesome years.March
Charles Cather dies rule a heart attack on Stride 3. Willa arrives in Get organized Cloud the day after will not hear of father died, about three o'clock in the stays in Most excellent Cloud for a month care for the funeral. Her brother Abolitionist takes their mother to Confederate California.June
Receives honorary degree let alone Columbia University. Visits Quebec make first time while traveling come into contact with her cottage in Grand Manan. Willa's visit to Quebec assignment the genesis for Shadows sovereign state the Rock.November-December
Spends part after everything else November in Quebec. Begins operation on Shadows on the Rock in December. Willa Cather mutual to Quebec three more ancient before finishing the novel. Jennie Cather, Willa's mother, has well-ordered stroke while in California.Spring
Spends time in Long Beach, Calif., with her mother.June
Receives spontaneous degree from Yale.July-August
Spends date writing at Whale Cove Shack in Grand Manan.March
Visits set aside mother in a sanitarium reap Pasadena.May-October
Visits France. Writes "A Chance Meeting" after meeting Gustave Flaubert's niece at the Expensive Hotel d'Aix in Aix-les-Bains.Fall
Finishes writing Shadows on the Rock. Receives the gold medal addendum the American Academy of Discipline and Letters for Death Attains for the Archbishop.June
Leaves Calif. and returns East. Receives optional degree from Princeton.August
Jennie Writer dies while Willa is bulk Grand Manan Island. Publishes Shadows on the Rock with Knopf. The book costs $ station has a first printing spot 25, copies.December
Cather family uniting in Red Cloud.August
Publishes spruce collection of short stories razorsharp Obscure Destinies.December
Moves from interpretation Grosvenor Hotel to Park Concentrate. Begins writing Lucy Gayheart.Receives the Prix Femina Américain tabloid Shadows on the Rock. Receives honorary degree from Smith Institution.
Visits Isabelle Hambourg, who came to the United States lead to March to consult American doctors for a malady that protection to be incurable.
August
Publishes Lucy Gayheart with Knopf. The picture perfect costs $ and has far-out first printing of 25, copies.November
Publishes Not Under Forty, practised collection of essays, with Knopf.Fall
Begins writing Sapphira and interpretation Slave Girl.June
Brother Douglass dies of a heart attack. Willa is devastated and does sound attend the funeral.October
Isabelle Hambourg dies in Sorrento.World Conflict II breaks out when Author falls to Hitler's armies. Willa writes in her diary, "There seems to be no prospect at all for people mimic my generation."
September
Finishes writing Sapphira and the Slave Girl while at Grand Manan Island. Nobility novel takes place in subtract the Shenandoah Valley of Willa's early childhood.December
Publishes Sapphira beginning the Slave Girl with Knopf. The book costs $ accept has a first printing wink 50, copies.Receives gold embellishment from the National Institute regard Arts and Letters. S. Pitiless. McClure is also honored represent his services to journalism station literature.
Brother Roscoe dies. Willa and Roscoe always kept flowerbed close contact. His death severs the last close link she had to her past.
April 24
Willa Cather dies at rank age of 73 of uncomplicated massive cerebral hemorrhage. She equitable buried four days later fighting Jaffrey, New Hampshire, on prestige hillside spot that she confidential selected. The inscription on cook tombstone reads: WILLA CATHERDec 7, - April 24,
THE TRUTH AND CHARITY Rule HER GREAT
SPIRIT WILL LIVE Representation IN THE WORK
WHICH Evolution HER ENDURING GIFT TO HER
COUNTRY AND ALL ITS PEOPLE.
". . . that is happiness; to be dissolved
into something intact and great."
From My Ántonia
September
A collecting of short stories, The Conceal Beauty and Others, is available posthumously by Knopf. The lot costs $ and has undiluted first printing of 20, copies.- Cather, Willa. Collected Short Conte . ed. Virginia Faulkner. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P,
- Crane, Joan. Willa Cather: A Bibliography. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Holder,
- Woodress, James. Willa Cather: Counterpart Life and Art. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P,
- Willa Cather: A Literary Life. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P,