Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1994
Abstract
The literature of Willa Cather has long been praised for its rich and evocative description of place. Her raw material was drawn primarily from personal experiences in late nineteenth- century Webster County, Nebraska, during the period of initial settlement, and renewed by frequent visits home the first decades of this century. The Pavelka farmstead was one of the important places in her life; it was used as the setting for Book V of My Antonia and for "Neighbour Rosicky," a later short story.1
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:2 (Spring 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.