Early life and education Willa Cather

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willa cather house, red cloud, nebraska


cather born wilella sibert cather in 1873 on maternal grandmother s farm in creek valley near winchester, virginia. father charles fectigue cather (d. 1928), family had lived on land in valley 6 generations. cather s family originated in wales, family name deriving cadair idris, mountain in gwynedd. mother mary virginia boak (died 1931), former school teacher. within year of cather s birth, family moved willow shade, greek revival-style home on 130 acres given them paternal grandparents.


at urging of charles cathers parents, family moved nebraska in 1883 when willa 9 years old. rich, flat farmland appealed charles father, , family wished escape tuberculosis outbreaks rampant in virginia. willa s father tried hand @ farming eighteen months; moved family town of red cloud, opened real estate , insurance business, , children attended school first time. of earliest work produced cather first published in red cloud chief, city s local paper. cather s time in western state, still on frontier, formative experience her. intensely moved dramatic environment , weather, vastness of nebraska prairie, , various cultures of european-american, immigrant , native american families in area. jim burden in antonia, young willa cather saw nebraska frontier place there nothing land: not country @ all, materials out of countries made...between earth , sky felt erased, blotted out .


mary cather had 6 more children after willa: roscoe, douglass, jessica, james, john, , elsie. cather closer brothers sisters whom, according biographer hermione lee, seems not have liked much. cather read widely, having made friends jewish couple, weiners, offered free access extensive library. made house calls local physician, dr. robert damerell, , decided become doctor.


after cather s essay on thomas carlyle published in nebraska state journal during freshman year @ university of nebraska, became regular contributor journal. in addition work local paper, cather served managing editor of hesperian, university of nebraska s student newspaper, , associated @ lincoln courier. changed plans major in science , become physician, instead graduating b.a. in english in 1894.








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