![]() She and her companion, Edith Lewis, are buried in the southwest corner of the Old Burying Ground. Frederick Sweeney's record of a 1918 influenza outbreak aboard a ship during World War I. One of Ours, which won her the 1923 Pulitzer Prize, had passages based on Jaffrey’s Dr. ![]() Robinson (VIS President 1908 -1928) and then by the Blaines, relatives of Mrs. When Cather put a tent on the land in 1917 to write her novel, it was owned by James Robinson, brother-in-law of Mrs. My Ántonia was written in a tent at High Mowing at 171 Thorndike Pond Road. The best part of all the better books was written here.” I finished Ántonia here, finished A Lost Lady and began the Archbishop. She wrote her brother in November, 1938 from Jaffrey’s Shattuck Inn: “ I am up here alone at this hotel in the woods where I have done most of my best work and where the proprietors are so kind to me. ![]() After graduating from the University of Nebraska, she worked in Pittsburgh for ten years and, in 1906, moved to New York City to be on the staff of McClure’s Magazine.Ĭather spent months in Jaffrey, usually in the fall, from 1917 until 1940. She completed My Ántonia here and wrote portions of nine other novels, including the Pulitzer Prize winner, One of Ours. 7, 1873 near Winchester, VA, Willa Cather’s family moved to Nebraska when she was nine. ![]()
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