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Willa Cather born in December of 1873 in Black Creek Valley in Virginia At the age of 9 moved to Nebraska frontier to join grandparents got her schooling in Nebraska and she attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln began her writing career during college writing short stories and poetry for the Nebraska State Journal and the Lincoln Courier After graduating from Nebraska in 1895 she worked as a teacher and journalist in Pittsburgh She wrote a collection …

…he describes her very crudely Passage starting on page 519 2nd col. with But Mrs. Springer... this is showing how tough her life is in Nebraska, her outward appearance is shown because of the change of her life from living in Boston and moving to Nebraska where she lives a tough farming life with farming and little opportunities for her Cather also gives very good descriptions of the character’s hands as a result of their