Willa (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ruth Franchere
- First Published: 1958
- Time of Work: 1883–1890
- Setting: Nebraska
- Principal Characters: Willa Cather, William Cather, Annie Sadilek, Uncle William Ducker
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Adolescence, Gender roles, Authors or writers, Education or educators, Rural or country life, Midwest, Writing, Novelists, Biography
- Locales: Nebraska
Form and Content
Ruth Franchere’s Willa: The Story of Willa Cather’s Growing Up presents a vivid sketch of the life of a young girl whose explorations of life around her defied the conventional limitations of her day. The narrative begins with Cather’s arrival in Nebraska at the age of nine. Then, in fifteen chapters, Franchere leads her readers through the excitement of Cather’s discoveries of the new country to which she has moved; the narrative concludes as she begins her college education.
The book opens with a glimpse of the curiosity, compassion,...
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