The Complete Letters of Willa Cather

FAIN: RQ-50816-14

University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Lincoln, NE 68503-2427)
Andrew Wade Jewell (Project Director: January 2014 to December 2019)

Work on the first stage of an online, open access edition of the complete correspondence of American novelist Willa Cather (1873-1947). (36 months)

We propose to edit Cather’s complete correspondence for digital publication on the completely free and open-access Willa Cather Archive (cather.unl.edu). We are asking for NEH support for the first stage of this edition: 1,500 letters, or half the complete currently-known corpus. This digital edition will feature texts transcribed and marked up in TEI P5 conformant XML, high-quality digital images of original documents, full multimedia annotations, and innovative search and browsing features including automatically-generated indices of names, titles, and geographic locations. The whole edition will be strengthened by its integration into the Willa Cather Archive, indisputably the central online resource for scholarly study of the author.

Associated Products

The Complete Letters of Willa Cather (Web Resource)
Title: The Complete Letters of Willa Cather
Author: Willa Cather
Abstract: The Complete Letters of Willa Cather is an endeavor to create a digital, scholarly edition of Cather's entire body of correspondence.
Year: 2004
Primary URL: https://cather.unl.edu/letters/
Primary URL Description: Project website

Complete Letters of Willa Cather (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: Complete Letters of Willa Cather
Author: Willa Cather
Author: Andrew Jewell
Author: Melissa Homestead
Author: Kari A. Ronning
Author: Janis P. Stout
Author: Emily Rau
Abstract: The Complete Letters of Willa Cather is an endeavor to create a digital, scholarly edition of Cather's entire body of correspondence.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://cather.unl.edu/letters/
Primary URL Description: Complete Letters of Willa Cather
Secondary URL: https://cather.unl.edu
Secondary URL Description: The Willa Cather Archive
Access Model: open access

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