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Lucy Gayheart

Alfred A. Knopf, 1935

"It was a discovery about life, a revelation of love as a tragic force, not a melting mood, of passion that drowns like black water."
Cover of first edition of Lucy Gayheart

Editions

Serialization

First serialized in five installments in the Woman's Home Companion from March to July, 1935.

First Edition

Published by Alfred A. Knopf on August 1, 1935.

First English Edition

Published by Cassell and Company, Ltd. on July 25, 1935.

Autograph Edition

Published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in 1938 in a volume with My Mortal Enemy.

Scholarly Edition

Published by University of Nebraska Press in 2015. Historical Essay by David Porter. Explanatory Notes by Kari A. Ronning and David Porter. Textual Essay and Editing by Frederick M. Link and Kari A. Ronning.

Related material available on the Willa Cather Archive

Scholarship

Recollecting Emotion in Tranquility: Wordsworth and Byron in Cather's My Ántonia and Lucy Gayheart
By Jonathan D. Gross, Cather Studies Volume 7
Willa Cather and the Book-of-the-Month Club
By Mark J. Madigan, Cather Studies Volume 7
"Not Under Sixty: The Treatment of Old Age in Cather's Works
By Margaret Doane, The Mower's Tree: The Newsletter of the Cather Colloquium, Spring 2006
Cather's Use of Light: An Impressionistic Tone
By Asad Al-Ghalith, Cather Studies Volume 3
"It Came Closer than That": Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart
By Linda Chown, Cather Studies Volume 2
Willa Cather's Subverted Endings and Gendered Time
By Susan J. Rosowski, Cather Studies Volume 1

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