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A Lost Lady is a 1923 novel by American writer Willa Cather. It tells the story of Marian Forrester and her husband, Captain Daniel Forrester, who live in the Western town of Sweet Water along the Transcontinental Railroad.
- Willa Sibert Cather
- United States
- 1923
- September 1923
A Lost Lady, novel by Willa Cather, published in 1923, depicting the decline of the American pioneer spirit and the aridity of small-town life. The title character, Marian Forrester, is portrayed through the adoring eyes of young Niel Herbert. He initially views Marian—the beautiful, gracious, and.
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Set in the fictional prairie town of Sweet Water, Nebraska. A Lost Lady is the story of Mrs. Marian Forrester and young Neil Herbert who adores her. The way she takes care of her husband, the stately manner she comports herself, is perfection in the eyes of Neil.
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The straightforward textual history of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia contrasts with the more complicated textual challenges of A Lost Lady and Death Comes for the Archbishop; the allusive personal history of the Nebraska novels, so densely woven that My Ántonia seems drawn not merely upon Anna Pavelka but upon all of Webster County, contrasts with the more public allusions of novels set elsewhere.
Come, my coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies, Good night, good night." MCMXXIII ALFRED·A·KNOPF. NEW YORK. COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY WILLA CATHER. The first edition of A LOST LADY consists of. twenty thousand two hundred and twenty copies as. follows: twenty on Borzoi all rag paper signed by.
To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail.
First published in 1923, A Lost Lady is one of Willa Cather's classic novels about life on the Great Plains. It harks back to Nebraska's early history and contrasts those days with an...
