Seeking life whole : Willa Cather and the Brewsters / Lucy Marks and David Porter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marks, Lucy, 1951-

Contributor:

Porter, David H., 1935-

Series:

Willa Cather series.

The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series on Willa Cather

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

Cather, Willa.

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947--Friends and associates.

Brewster, Earl.

Brewster, Achsah.

Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on archives only recently made available, this book both explores a previously unknown chapter in Willa Cather's life and offers the first full portrait of two artists whose lives are as fascinating as they are unbelievable. Earl Brewster and Achsah Barlow met as New York art students, married in 1910, and spent the remainder of their lives painting and writing in Europe and India: Deeply spiritual and often impecunious, they nonetheless managed to live stylishly and to attract the friendship of people like Cather, D. H. Lawrence, and the Nehru family. Although their friendship with Lawrence is well known, that with Cather has only now come to light, though it extended from the early 1900s until Cather's death in 1947, and had a profound impact on Cather and her writing. The book concludes with a representative sampling of the Brewster-Cather materials that this book explores for the first time. Illustrated with four color plates and five black-and-white illustrations. Lucy Marks is special editions cataloger at Drew University Library. David Porter is the Tisch Family Distinguished Scholar at Skidmore College, where he teaches in the classics, English, and music departments.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Abbreviations

Earl and Achsah Brewster: A Biographical Sketch

Happy Working Days: Willa Cather and the Brewsters

Checklist of Materials in the Brewster Archive, Drew University

Cather Books and Letters in the Brewster Archive

For the book Willa Cather-livingby Earl Brewster

Selections from The Child by Achsah Barlow Brewster

Selections from Fourteen Years of My Adventures by Harwood Brewster Picard

Selections from To Frances and Claire Some Memories of Your Grandparents Earl Henry Brewster and Achsah Barlow Brewster by Your Mother Harwood Barlow Brewster Picard

Selected Letters of Earl and Achsah Barlow Brewster

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8386-4231-4

OCLC:

647833196