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Sapphira and the Slave Girl

Willa CatherWilla Cather

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Cather's last novel, written just a few years before her death, was the only one set in her home state of Virginia. Her age and failing health is given as the reason that Sapphira didn't meet the level of her earlier novels. This story was based on an incident that was recounted to her by her grandmother. It occurred in 1856, shortly before the Civil War, and provides an example of what must have been endured by many of the young house slave girls.Willa Cather was one of the best American novelist's of the 20th century. Her two novels, My Ántonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop are ranked in the top 100 novels of the 20th century on many lists, and she won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours.

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