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A Lost Lady

Alfred A. Knopf, 1923

"Compared with her, other women were heavy and dull; even the pretty ones seemed lifeless,—they had not that something in their glance that made one's blood tingle."
Cover of first edition of A Lost Lady

Editions

Serialization

First serialized in three installments in Century from April to June, 1923.

First Edition

Published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1923.

First English Edition

Published by William Heinemann Ltd. in August 1924.

Autograph Edition

Published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in 1938.

Scholarly Edition

Published by University of Nebraska Press in 1997. Historical Essay by Susan J. Rosowski with Kari A. Ronning. Explanatory Notes by Kari A. Ronning. Textual Editing by Charles W. Mignon and Frederick M. Link with Kari A. Ronning.

Related material available on the Willa Cather Archive

Interviews

Willa Cather
Published in Arts and Decorations in April 1924 and collected by L. Brent Bohlke in Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters.
A Short Story Course Can Only Delay, It Cannot Kill an Artist, Says Willa Cather
By Flora Merrill, published in New York World on April 19, 1925 and collected by L. Brent Bohlke in Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters.

Scholarship

Willa Cather and her Public in 1922
By Janis P. Stout, Cather Studies Volume 7
Finding an Erotics of Place in Willa Cather's A Lost Lady
By Mark Robison, The Mower's Tree: The Newsletter of the Cather Colloquium, Spring 2001
Dispossession and Redemption in the Novels of Willa Cather
By Ann W. Fisher-Wirth, Cather Studies Volume 1
Willa Cather's Subverted Endings and Gendered Time
By Susan J. Rosowski, Cather Studies Volume 1

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