HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND

Bridgers, Lynn. Death's Deceiver: The Life of Joseph P. Machebeuf. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Cherny, Robert W. “Willa Cather's Nebraska.” In Approaches to Teaching Cather's My Ántonia, ed. Susan J. Rosowski. 31-36. New York: Modern Language Association, 1989.

Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Gordon, Lynn D. “The Gibson Girl Goes to College: Popular Culture and Women's Higher Education in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920.” American Quarterly 39.2 (1987): 211-30.

Mares, E. A., ed. Padre Martinez: New Perspectives from Taos. Taos, N.M.: Millicent Rogers Museum, 1988.

Marks, Patricia. Bicycles, Bangs, and Bloomers: The New Woman in the Popular Press. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990.

McNall, Sally Allen. “Immigrant Backgrounds to My Ántonia: ‘A Curious Social Situation in Black Hawk.’” In Approaches to Teaching Cather's My Ántonia, ed. Susan J. Rosowski. 22-30. New York: Modern Language Association, 1989.

Rudnick, Lois. “The New Woman.” In 1915, the Cultural Moment: The New Politics, the New Woman, the New Psychology, the New Art and the New Theatre in America, ed. Adele Heller and Lois Rudnick. 69-81. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

Schriber, Mary Suzanne. Writing Home: American Women Abroad, 1830-1920. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1993.

BASIC REFERENCE WORKS

Crane, Joan. Willa Cather: A Bibliography. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.

Curtin, William M., ed. The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902. 2 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.

March, John. A Reader's Companion to the Fiction of Willa Cather. Edited by Marilyn Arnold. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1993.

Meyering, Sheryl L. A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Willa Cather. New York: G. K. Hall, 1994.

Schroeter, James, ed. Willa Cather and Her Critics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967.

Slote, Bernice, ed. The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966.

LIBRARY COLLECTIONS

There is no one collection of Willa Cather's papers. The following are some of the major archives:

Bailey/Howe Library, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont

Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Huntington Library, San Marino, California

J. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City

Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, Nebraska

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, Red Cloud, Nebraska

MEMOIRS

Byrne, Kathleen D., and Richard C. Snyder. Chrysalis: Willa Cather in Pittsburgh, 1896-1906. Pittsburgh: Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 1980.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield. “Daughter of the Frontier.” New York Herald Tribune, May 28, 1933. 7, 9.

Greenslet, Ferris. Under the Bridge: An Autobiography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943.

Knopf, Alfred A. “Publishing Willa Cather.” In Miracles of Perception: The Art of Willa Cather, ed. Joan Crane. 1-4. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, Alderman Library, 1980.

Lewis, Edith. Willa Cather Living: A Personal Record. New York: Knopf, 1953.

Menuhin, Yehudi. Unfinished Journey. New York: Knopf, 1977.

Porter, Katherine Anne. “Reflections on Willa Cather.” The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter. 29-39. Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1970.

Rolfe, Lionel Menuhin. The Menuhins: A Family Odyssey. San Francisco: Panjandrum/Aris Books, 1978.

Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley. Willa Cather: A Memoir. Lindoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963.

Southwick, Helen Cather. “Willa Cather's Early Career: Origins of a Legend.” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 65.2 (April 1982): 85-98.

Welty, Eudora. “The House of Willa Cather.” In The Art of Willa Cather, ed. Bernice Slote and Virginia Faulkner. 3-20. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1974.

COLLECTION OF INTERVIEWS

Bohlke, L. Brent. Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES

Ammons, Elizabeth. Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Bennett, Mildred R. The World of Willa Cather. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1951.

Bloom, Edward A., and Lillian D. Bloom. Willa Cather's Gift of Sympathy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1962.

Brown, E. K., with Leon Edel. Willa Cather: A Critical Biography. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1953.

Fischer, Mike. “Pastoralism and Its Discontents: Willa Cather and the Burden of Imperialism.” Mosaic 23 (1990: 31-44.

Fryer, Judith. Felicitous Spaces: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. Sexchanges. Vol. 2 of No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Goldman, Dorothy. “‘Eagles of the West?’ American Women Writers and World War I.” In Women and World War I: The Written Response, ed. Dorothy Goldman. 188-208. New York: St. Martin's, 1993.

Hicks, Granville. “The Case against Willa Cather.” English Journal, November 1933. Rpt. Willa Cather and Her Critics, ed. James Schroeter. 139-47. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967.

Lee, Hermoine. Willa Cather: Double Lives. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989.

Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Murphy, John J., ed. Willa Cather: Family, Community, and History. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Humanities Publications Center, 1990.

O'Brien, Sharon. Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Reynolds, Guy. Willa Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire. New York: St. Martin's, 1996.

Romines, Ann. The Home Plot: Women, Writing, and Domestic Ritual. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.

Rosowski, Susan J. Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

———, ed. Cather Studies. Ongoing series of volumes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990-.

———. The Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather's Romanticism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.

Skaggs, Merrill. After the World Broke in Two: The Later Novels of Willa Cather. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990.

Stouck, David. Willa Cather's Imagination. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975.

Stout, Janis P. Through the Window, Out the Door: Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998.

———. Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.

Urgo, Joseph R. Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Williams, Deborah Lindsay. Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Woodress, James. Willa Cather: A Literary Life. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

Additional coverage of Cather's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers; American Writers Retrospective Supplement, Vol. 1; Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 24; Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography & Resources, Vol. 1; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1865–1917; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 104, 128; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 9, 54, 78, 256; Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, Vol. 1; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied and Novelists; Exploring Novels; Exploring Short Stories; Literature and Its Times, Vol. 3; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Literature Resource Center; Modern American Woman Writers; Novels for Students, Vol. 2; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Ed. 2; Short Stories for Students, Vols. 2, 7; Short Story Criticism, Vols. 2, 50; Something about the Author, Vol. 30; Twayne's United States Authors; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 11, 31, 99; Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers; Twentieth-Century Western Writers, Ed. 2; and World Literature Criticism.