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Behind "Reflections on Willa Cather": Katherine Anne Porter and the Dilemmas of Literary Sisterhood

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From: Legacy
Date: 19971031
Author:P, Janis

Behind "Reflections on Willa Cather": Katherine Anne Porter and the Dilemmas of Literary Sisterhood

On September 25, 1949, two years after the death of Willa Cather, the New York Times Book Review published a warmly appreciative review by Katherine Anne Porter of the posthumous volume Willa Cather on Writing. Entitled "The Calm, Pure Art of Willa Cather," that review was perhaps the most unqualified in its praise of any review Porter ever wrote. When she subsequently expanded it into a full essay, however, its title became the more neutral "Reflections on Willa Cather" and its straightforward ...

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