by Hermione Lee
The author is also grateful for permission to reprint the following illustrations:
For Charles Cather, Virginia Cather, Willa Cather as a child, dug-out home, Annie Pavelka and family, Willa Cather and Louise Pound, riding handcar in Wyoming, with Isabelle in Wyoming, at McClure’s, Olive Fremstad, Bishop Lamy, and Cather family group, to the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation, Nebraska State Historical Society.
For Willa Cather as a child, Willa Cather Collection, Barrett Library, University of Virginia Library.
For attic bedroom, © Lucia Woods, 1973.
For Willa Cather at Nebraska State Journal office, 1890s, Bailey/Howe Library, The University of Vermont.
For Ethelbert Nevin, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
For Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Fields, The Boston Athenaeum.
For Sam McClure, The Lilly Library, The University of Indiana.
For Willa Cather at Mesa Verde, and Willa Cather and Isabelle in France, Helen Cather Southwick.
For Wetherills, and Cliff Palace, The Mesa Verde Museum Association.
For Quebec, The National Archives of Canada.
For Willa Cather and Menuhin, Sir Yehudi Menuhin.
Willa Cather’s father, Charles, as a young man
Virginia, Willa Cather’s mother
Willa Cather as a child
Dug-out home, Nebraska, 1880s
The attic bedroom in the house at Red Cloud
Annie Pavelka and family
At the Nebraska State Journal office, 1890s
With Louise Pound, c. 1892
Ethelbert Nevin
Riding a handcar along the railroad, Wyoming, 1905
With Isabelle (left), camping in Wyoming, 1905
Sarah Orne Jewett (right) and Annie Fields at 148 Charles Street, Boston
As managing editor of McClure’s, 1910 or ’12
Sam McClure
Olive Fremstad as Salome
Edith Lewis
At Mesa Verde, 1915
Richard Wetherill and his brother in the Spruce Tree House Ruins, Mesa Verde, c. 1869
Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde
Bishop Lamy, Cather’s ‘Archbishop’
With Isabelle, Ville D’Avray, near Paris, 1923
At Grand Manan, 1931
Charles, Willa, Virginia and Douglass Cather, c. 1925
Quebec in 1699
With Yehudi Menuhin, Pasadena, 1931
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