Edith Lewis (1881–1972)
Auteur de Willa Cather Living: A Personal Record
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Œuvres de Edith Lewis
21 Skirts and how they grew 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Lewis, Edith Labaree
- Date de naissance
- 1881-12-22
- Date de décès
- 1972-08-11
- Lieu de sépulture
- Old Burying Yard, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, USA
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada - Études
- Smith College
- Professions
- magazine editor
advertising copywriter
memoirist - Relations
- Cather, Willa (friend)
- Organisations
- McClure's Magazine
- Courte biographie
- Edith Lewis was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and earned college credits attending the prep school associated with the University of Nebraska before transferring in 1899 to Smith College in Massachusetts. In 1902, she received her bachelor's degree in English and returned to her hometown to teach elementary school. She met Willa Cather the following summer at the home of Sarah Harris, publisher of The Lincoln Courier. Ms. Lewis moved to New York City soon afterward, settling into an apartment on Washington Square in Greenwich Village. In 1906, she applied for a job as an editorial proofreader at McClure's Magazine, and worked there with Ms. Cather for six years. In 1908, the two women moved in together and were domestic partners for nearly 40 years. Ms. Lewis left McClure's in 1915 to become managing editor of Every Week Magazine, where she stayed until the magazine went out of business in 1918. In 1919, she began a long career as an advertising copywriter at the J. Walter Thompson Co. In 1926, Ms. Lewis acquired the land on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada, on which she and Ms. Cather built a summer cottage together. When they lost their apartment to subway construction in 1927, they shared quarters at the Grosvenor Hotel when they were both in New York City. In 1932 they took an apartment at 570 Park Avenue. During their relationship, Ms. Lewis was closely involved in Cather's creative process, reading and editing her work before publication. She was appointed executor of Ms. Cather's literary estate and a beneficiary of her literary trust upon her death in 1947. Ms. Lewis authorized Canadian scholar and literary critic E.K. Brown as Ms. Cather's first biographer, and published her own memoir, Willa Cather Living: A Personal Record, in 1953.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 50
- Popularité
- #316,248
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 6
The book was published in 1953, six years after Cather’s death at the age of 74. Lewis was 65 when Cather died and 71 when this book was published.
They met in Nebraska in 1903 when Cather was 30 and Lewis 21. Six years later they moved into an apartment together in New York. Lewis writes, "I believe it was in 1909, after she returned from her first London trip, that Willa Cather and I took a small and not very comfortable apartment together on Washington Place, just off Washington Square" (74).
Lewis refers to Cather as Willa Cather, never Willa, never Cather. Always Willa Cather. It is at times charming and at other times annoying, but one thing was obvious: the number of times you read the name Willa Cather starts to feel like an incantation. The spell certainly ensnared me.
And there is something about the way Lewis phrased that sentence about the two of them moving in together that made my heart flutter. I think had they been "just friends" that Lewis would have offered more about why they moved in together or why they hit it off in the first place.
The thing not named indeed.… (plus d'informations)