Sapphira and the Slave Girl

Alfred A. Knopf, 1940

"For years, ever since she was a child, Nancy had seemed to him more like an influence than a person."

Editions

First Edition

Published by Alfred A. Knopf on December 7, 1940.

First English Edition

Published by Cassell and Company, Ltd. on August 2, 1941.

Autograph Edition

Published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in 1941.

Scholarly Edition

Published by University of Nebraska Press in 2009. Historical Essay and Explanatory Notes by Ann Romines. Textual Essay and Editing by Charles W. Mignon, Kari A. Ronning and Frederick M. Link.

Related material available on the Willa Cather Archive

Interviews

Willa Cather: Civilized and Very American

By Stephen Vincent and Rosemary Benét, published in the News York Herald Tribune Books on December 15, 1940 and collected by L. Brent Bohlke in Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters.

Scholarship

Losing and Finding "Race": Old Jezebel's African Story

By Ann Romines, Cather Studies Volume 8

Willa Cather and the Book-of-the-Month Club

By Mark J. Madigan, Cather Studies Volume 7

Willa Cather's Civil War: A Very Long Engagement

By Ann Romines, Cather Studies Volume 6

Admiring and Remembering: The Problem of Virginia

By Ann Romines, Cather Studies Volume 5

Willa Cather's Condition: Disease, Doctors, and Diagnoses as Social Action

By Nadeane Trowse, Cather Studies Volume 4

Reflections of Authority and Community in Sapphira and the Slave Girl

By Sharon Hoover, Cather Studies Volume 3

Her Mortal Enemy's Daughter: Cather and the Writing of Age

By Ann Romines, Cather Studies Volume 3

Time and Memory in Sapphira and the Slave Girl: Sex, Abuse, and Art

By Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Cather Studies Volume 3

Willa Cather's Subverted Endings and Gendered Time

By Susan Rosowski, Cather Studies Volume 1