Cather died on April 24, 1947, of a cerebral hemorrhage, in her Madison Avenue, New York home, where she had lived for many years.This paper is a study of gender in literature which elucidates traditional American women’s notion on gender relations which are absorbed from Victorian values. She was also inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma in 1974, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York in 1988. In 1961, Willa Cather was the first woman ever voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. Some of Cather's novels were made into movies, the most well-known being A Lost Lady, starring Barbara Stanwyck. She also wrote The Professor's House, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Lucy Gayheart. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning awards including the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy during World War I. She continued her education, receiving her doctorate of letters from the University of Nebraska in 1917, and honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. In 1906, Cather moved to New York to become a leading magazine editor at McClure's Magazine before turning to writing full-time. Although she had been named Willela, her family always called her 'Willa.' Upon graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1895, Cather moved to Pittsburgh where she worked as a journalist and teacher while beginning her writing career. Willa Siebert Cather was born in 1873 in the home of her maternal grandmother in western Virginia.

The novel is also concerned with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and the other between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when many other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Ántonia (1918).O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Ántonia (1918).O Pioneers! tells the story of the.

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