Cather Studies, Volume 15

Melissa J. Homestead is a professor of English and program faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis and American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869 and the coeditor of Cather Studies, Volume 9: Willa Cather and Modern Cultures (Nebraska, 2011), among other books.

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionMelissa J. Homestead1. “Near and Not Too Near”: Celebrity Fandom and Queer Affinity in the Friendship between Willa Cather and Zoë AkinsSara Bryant2. A View Beyond The Song of the Lark: The Letters from Olive Fremstad to Willa Cather and Cather’s Opera Diva StoriesJessica Tebo3. “My Dear Boy”: Roscoe Cather’s Role within Willa Cather’s Kingdom of ArtLaurie A. Weber4. The “Very Especial Pleasure” of Home Places: Four Letters by Willa Cather to Other ArtistsJohn H. Flannigan5. “Something Out of Even This Hand-in-a-Box”: Reading Disability in the New Complete Willa Cather Letters Digital Scholarly EditionElizabeth Wells6. Willa Cather, G.I. Fan Letters, and the Armed Services Editions during the Second World WarMary Chinery7. Patterns and Outliers among People, Dates, and Places in Cather’s CorrespondenceGabi Kirilloff, Matthew Lavin, and Sean McCulloughNotes on Contributors