This article has a short biography of Willa Cather in the beginning as an introduction to the rest of the article. It also describes the plot of the novel, O Pioneers!, while explaining its adaptation into television.
studies at the piano and in French and offered moral counseling
eleven she endured further heartache when her great-grandmother died.
contracted typhoid fever and died.
proficient and creative storyteller.
Chopin graduated from the Catholic school in 1868
music--practicing at the piano and patronizing the city's symphony and its opera companies.
which dictated subservience for women to male domination
befriended a charismatic, independent--though married--German singer and actress.
native Oscar Chopin, who had arrived in the city to work in a bank. A year later the two were married.
abbreviated by commencement of the Franco-Prussian War,
St. Louis before establishing themselves in New Orleans.
French-Creole,
But Oscar's father was a tyrant who had been known to violently abuse both slaves and his son.
performing arts, developing a preference for the operas of Richard Wagner, and she persisted in her habit, then considered highly unusual for women, of smoking cigarettes.