Willa Cather, My Ántonia

Ann Moseley (Texas A&M University, Commerce)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1918

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

My Ántonia (1918) is Willa Cather’s most popular and critically acclaimed novel. While working on The Song of the Lark, Cather spent part of the summer of 1914 in her hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, catching up with old friends like Annie Sadilek Pavelka and the Miner family (Ántonia and the Harlings in My Ántonia) (Letter to Sergeant, 15 Aug. 1914; Lee, 1989, 137). Two years later, after spending the summer in New Mexico and visiting Mesa Verde, she made a more extensive visit to Red Cloud. Between August and late November of that year, she helped cook and clean for her family, as her mother was sick at the time, and she relaxed by driving into the country to visit old friends.

One of her most …

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Citation: Moseley, Ann. "My Ántonia". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 October 2012 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3382, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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