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• Critics have, from time to time, returned the favor, consigning her to near-oblivion in the 1930s when they judged her to be out of touch with the painful social and economic realities of Depression-era America.1
• three of her early novels – O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia – have been made into movies for television since the early 1990s,
• they view her not as a crusader but as an acute observer
• The goal of the anthology is to help readers to plumb some of Cather’s depths,
• In 1987, with the publication of Sharon O’Brien’s psychobiography Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice,