(PDF) Ebook Long Road from Red Cloud: Life Lessons from Willa Cather
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Willa Cather had a secret.She did her best to take it to her grave when she died in 1947, asking friends and relatives to destroy her letters. Her Last Will and Testament stated that any surviving letters could not be published or quoted. Her loyal family upheld her wishes until 2011, when her nephew Charles died, and her intellectual property rights went into a trust between her remaining family, the Cather Foundation in Red Cloud, and the University of Nebraska Foundation in Lincoln. The first 566 of her letters were published in 2013, and another 1,400 or so have been digitized for the online Cather Archive at the University of Nebraska. Having this many of her letters open to research totally altered one historian's view of her life. "This is not the book I set out to write," Betty Jean Steinshouer says, "but it's the book that the times demanded." You'll love this new and revealing look at a beloved author because it brings into focus the tremendous struggle it took for a confused little kid and cross-dressing adolescent to become the one and only Willa Cather. order now Advance praise:“Long Road from Red Cloud is a fascinating new study of a treasured American author. Steinshouer’s extensive and detailed research tenderly delves into the selfhood of Willa Cather to reveal a previously unknown dimension of this brilliant, complex and wise soul.” -- Robin C. Tuthill, co-author, FEMALE PIONEERS OF FORT MYERS“This book is excellent. I couldn't put it down. In describing how Willa Cather's gender identity helped shape her writing, the book covers ground that for various reasons has been largely ignored.” –Bob Dorr, retired reporter, OMAHA WORLD HERALD"Steinshouer's lovingly researched book breaks new ground in presenting Willa Cather as a much more complex figure than most of us ever imagined." Judith Schwarz, RADICAL FEMINISTS OF HETERODOXY: GREENWICH VILLAGE 1912-1940“Betty Jean Steinshouer’s beautifully written book, Long Road from Red Cloud, is a brilliant and fascinating exploration of Willa Cather’s mysterious “thing not named,” a constant in Cather’s life that was a source of both pain and grace. Subtitled Life Lessons from Willa Cather, Steinshouer’s book discloses how Cather integrated both her male and female realities to fully realize her true personhood and become one of the great American authors of the 20th Century. Steinshouer knows Willa Cather well, having studied and embodied her on stage for over thirty years. A Long Road from Red Cloud is not only a celebration of Willa Cather’s remarkable life, but a celebration of the dignity and integrity of our sisters and brothers who are also gifted with the ‘thing not named’. -- Jimmy Creech, author of Adam's Gift: A Memoir of a Pastor’s Calling to Defy the Church’s Persecution of Lesbians and Gays" "This riveting, erudite study offers a startling but convincing answer to the question of why Willa Cather’s privacy has been so fiercely guarded. Cather scholar Betty Jean Steinshouer reveals a wealth of information from published and unpublished sources, including conversations with people who knew Cather and recently-released letters. Her book sheds astonishing light on this extraordinary writer and her prize-winning work." --Nancy Manahan, Ph.D., LESBIAN NUNS: BREAKING SILENCEBetty Jean Steinshouer’s lifelong study of Willa Cather brought her one-woman show, "Willa Cather Speaks," to hundreds of Chautauqua stages throughout the U.S. and Canada from 1988 to 2018. She visited archives and rare book rooms to read Cather papers, including verboten letters contained in files marked RESTRICTED. “I thought I knew Willa Cather,” she said. “But having this new access to her letters changed everything. Aspects of her life and personality I had always found puzzling suddenly made sense."
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