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<h3>Excerpt</h3> <div><div>Introduction<br><br> Before Willa Cather died, she did what she could to prevent this book from ever existing. She made a will that clearly forbade all publication of her letters, in full or in part. And now we flagrantly defy Cather’s will in the belief that her decision, made in the last, dark years of her life and honored for more than half a century, is outweighed by the value of making these letters avail- able to readers all over the world.<br>  <br> Why did she put such restrictions in her will? Various answers have been proposed. Some believe that Cather was guarding her privacy, perhaps worried that the letters she dashed off over the years, not thinking of herself as a public figure, would compromise her literary reputation. Some have wondered if she sought to conceal a secret buried in her years of correspondence, some sign of an indiscretion or uncontrolled passion. Many people, following James Woodress’s characterization of her in <i>Willa Cather: A Literary Life</i>, are convinced that Cather was obsessed with her privacy and that the will—together with her supposed systematic collecting and burning of letters—was simply an expression of a p

Who reads The Selected Letters of Willa Cather?

Author

Willa Cather; Andrew Jewell; Janis Stout

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307959300

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction