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It seems to me that great heroines in literature almost always have memorable and even imposing names, like Anna Karenina, Emma Bovary, and Cather's Antonia Shimerda, which has to be the best name of all time.
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That 1912 book was not one of Willa Cather's better novels, but it was her first -- and many great fictional works subsequently flowed from her pen.
Dave Astor: 10 Reading-Related Resolutions for 2012 Dave Astor 2011
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Throughout Cather's life her most significant friendships were with women, at times she adopted the name William and wore men's clothes.
Lily Bevan: Get Thee to a Library! Unsung Hero of 41st St: Library Way Lily Bevan 2010
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I don't know if Cather's had the greatest influence on me, but she's the one writer whose influence I would most hate to be without.
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This is what lifts such novels of Cather's as "My Antonia" and "Death Comes for the Archbishop" above regional fiction and gives them their standing as world literature.
What Killed American Lit. Joseph Epstein 2011
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Throughout Cather's life her most significant friendships were with women, at times she adopted the name William and wore men's clothes.
Lily Bevan: Get Thee to a Library! Unsung Hero of 41st St: Library Way Lily Bevan 2010
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Throughout Cather's life her most significant friendships were with women, at times she adopted the name William and wore men's clothes.
Lily Bevan: Get Thee to a Library! Unsung Hero of 41st St: Library Way Lily Bevan 2010
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Instead, she gossips about Cather's purported lesbianism and gives us a few platitudes: Cather's work explores "the spirit that built America"; it "has so much to do so directly with the most central problems of living," or so says Joan Acocella, quoted by Torrance.
Experimental Fiction 2010
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Throughout Cather's life her most significant friendships were with women, at times she adopted the name William and wore men's clothes.
Lily Bevan: Get Thee to a Library! Unsung Hero of 41st St: Library Way Lily Bevan 2010
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Throughout Cather's life her most significant friendships were with women, at times she adopted the name William and wore men's clothes.
Lily Bevan: Get Thee to a Library! Unsung Hero of 41st St: Library Way Lily Bevan 2010
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