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...Lost Lady* Miss Cather Reconstructs the West of the Railroad Kings...
...personality of Willa Cather is characterized chiefly by firmness. She is positive, determined, a trifle withdrawn. Her charm is undeniable, yet it has the air of being at times carefully reserved for a greater occasion. She has no great interest in the small affairs of the world, yet she is gracious and her opinions, when vouchsafed, are well considered and delivered with positiveness. She would find folly a difficult companion. This precision of thought a.nd character illuminates her writing. It is, perhaps, what makes My Antonia and A Lost Lady the works of art which they...
...Miss Cather, born in Virginia, spent most of her early life in Nebraska, where she was graduated from the State University in 1895. She has been both journalist and teacher. For a time she was an associate editor of McClure's Magazine. Then, quite deliberately, she began her career of writing, after many years of apprenticeship, and has, as deliberately, progressed...
...York Times: "There is no reason why Stella Dallas should not place Mrs. Prouty immediately amid such writers as Zona Gale and Willa Cather...
...Cather: My Antonia...