![]() ![]() This episode also sees Andy revisit an old favourite, The End of the Affair by Grahame Greene and John explores the remarkable story of Knepp Estate in West Sussex, the UK’s largest rewilding project documented in Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree. Chief among these services are a series of acclaimed biographies of some of the most important 20th century women writers: Virginia Woolf (1996), Edith Wharton (2006), Elizabeth Bowen (1981), Penelope Fitzgerald (2013) and the subject of today’s episode, Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up first published by Virago in 1989. ![]() In 2013 she was made a Dame for her services to literary scholarship. Hermione Lee was, until last year, President of Wolfson College in Oxford and remains Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting. Set during the great migration west to settle. In this episode of Backlisted, Andy and John are joined by the critic and biographer, Hermione Lee to discuss My Ántonia, the pioneering novel by Willa Cather, first published a hundred years ago in 1918. My Ántonia is the final book of Cathers 'prairie trilogy' of novels, preceded by O Pioneers and The Song of the Lark.This novel is considered Cathers first masterpiece. Willa Cathers My ntonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. ![]()
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