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My Ántonia / Willa Cather; with an introduction by Walter Havighurst ; suggestions for reading and discussion by Bertha Handlan.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
Contributor:
Campbell, Bertha Handlan.
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women immigrants--Fiction.
Women immigrants.
Farmers' spouses--Fiction.
Farmers' spouses.
Czech Americans--Fiction.
Czech Americans.
Women pioneers--Fiction.
Women pioneers.
Married women--Fiction.
Married women.
Friendship--Fiction.
Friendship.
Farm life--Fiction.
Farm life.
Nebraska--Fiction.
Nebraska.
Genre:
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Western stories.
Penn Provenance:
Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Hartford Public Schools (Hartford, Conn.) (label) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xvi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [1949]
Summary:
A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl.
Contents:
Prairie life in My Antonia / Walter Havinghurst
Text
For reading and discussion: the novel as a whole.
Notes:
Fifth edition. Cf. Crane.
"The pioneer and settler in fiction ... a short list of novels": pages [265]-266.
Local Notes:
Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
Schimmel Collection copy has remains of ownership label (of the Hartford Public School District?) with ms. numeral ("75") in ink and ms. inscription ("Discard") in pencil on front pastedown.
Cited in:
Crane, J. Willa Cather: a bibliography, A9.e.i
OCLC:
2678803

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