Willa Cather Review | 65.2| Summer 2024

The Willa Cather Review is a scholarly journal published several times of year by the Willa Cather Foundation. It is a benefit of membership or you can purchase individual copies.

Table of Contents

• Letters from the Executive Director and the President
• "The Man Who Gave Me My First Chance," S.S. McClure and Willa Cather's "Before Breakast" • Robert Thacker
• Modernist Ennui and the Use of Domestic Time in A Lost Lady • Amrita Bakshi
• The Only Daughter of a Distinguished (Pittsburgh) Man: The McClungs, the Mellons, and Willa Cather's My Ántonia • James Jaap
• A Riverton Poet Praises Cather: Jessica Cather Auld's Copy of Observations by the Wayside • Nathan Tye
• From the Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting (June 8, 2024):
  • Dedicatory • Ashley Olson, Executive Director, Willa Cather Foundation
  • Flowers in the Attic • Miranda Davis, Nebraska Youth Poet Laureate
  • The Feeling of Being at Home • Matt Mason, Nebraska State Poet

ON THE COVER: "A Dream of a Rose Bower" — Inspired by the discovery of a long-protected patch of wallpaper in Willa Cather's bedroom at the Willa Cather Childhood Home