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Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940. It is the story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young slave. The book balances an atmospheric portrait of antebellum Virginia against an unblinking view of the lives of Sapphira's ...
3.70. 1,615 ratings205 reviews. Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave. One of Cather's later works. Genres Fiction Classics Historical Fiction American Novels African American Historical.
SUMMARY. Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) is the last novel by Willa Cather and the Virginia-born writer’s only book set entirely in the state. Based on an incident in Cather’s own family, in which her maternal grandmother helped a slave escape in 1856, the novel details the complicated marriage of Henry and Sapphira Colbert ...
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Internet Archive. Language. English. iv, 3-14 p., [126] blank leaves ; 20 cm. Persecution of a beautiful mulatto slave girl by her jealous and invalid mistress in Virginia just before and after the Civil War. A booksellers' sample copy with table of contents and specimen pages at the beginning; the remaining leaves in the book are blank.
The novel is set in Cather’s native Virginia in the mid-1800s on the estate of a declining slaveholding family. Sapphira and the Slave Girl centres on the family’s matriarch, Sapphira Colbert, and her attempt to sell Nancy Till, a slave girl of mixed descent. Sapphira’s plot is foiled by her husband, Henry, and their widowed daughter ...
Sapphira and the Slave Girl. By Willa Cather Read by Bernadette Dunne. Best Seller. Part of Vintage Classics. Category: Historical Fiction | Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction. Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks. Paperback $15.00. Dec 07, 2010| ISBN 9780307739650. Buy. Ebook $6.99. Aug 24, 2011| ISBN 9780307805256. Buy.
