Upon arriving, the Cathers settled on her grandparent's 160-acre homestead just outside the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska, which had a population of about 1,000 at the time.Īfter moving to Nebraska, Willa Cather struggled to adapt to her new home. He was following his parents who had already migrated to Nebraska to homestead. When she was nine, Willa's father decided to move the family to the Nebraskan prairie. Her life took her across the country, and she would become one of the premiere American authors of the 1900s. 35.Wilella Sibert Cather was born in Virginia on December 7, 1873. She was the first of seven children of Mr. Central to the novel's action is the Nebraskan landscape it describes, by turns unyielding and fruitful, bitter and ecstatic.O Pioneers! joins Cather's My Antonia in Everyman's Library. Strong-willed and fiercely independent, she succeeds against all odds, but only at the cost of her own fulfilment as a woman. When their father dies young, exhausted by the failure of his attempts at agriculture, it is left to the visionary Alexandra to guide the family to prosperity and safeguard the fortune of her brothers. 9781841593418 O Pioneers! 35.7000 NZD InStock /shop/books/fiction /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/contemporary First published in 1913, the novel that made Willa Cather famous is a powerfully mythic tale of the transformation of the American frontier as seen through the life of one extraordinary womanĪt the turn of the twentieth century.

First published in 1913, the novel that made Willa Cather famous is a powerfully mythic tale of the transformation of the American frontier as seen through the life of one extraordinary womanĪt the turn of the twentieth century.

Strong-willed and fiercely independent, she su.

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