View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications -- Department of English English, Department of Fall 2013 Willa Cather, Edith Lewis, and Collaboration: The Southwestern Novels of the 1920s and Beyond Melissa J. Homestead University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishfacpubs Part of the Comparative Literature Commons, English Language and Literature Commons, Modern Literature Commons, and the Reading and Language Commons Homestead, Melissa J., "Willa Cather, Edith Lewis, and Collaboration: The outhS western Novels of the 1920s and Beyond" (2013). Faculty Publications -- Department of English. 183. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishfacpubs/183 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications -- Department of English by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in Studies in the Novel 45:3 (Fall 2013), pp. 408-441. DOI: 10.1353/sdn.2013.0015 Copyright © 2013 by the University of North Texas. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press. digitalcommons.unl.edu Used by permission. Willa Cather, Edith Lewis, and Collaboration: The Southwestern Novels of the 1920s and Beyond Melissa J. Homestead University of Nebraska–Lincoln In Willa Cather: A Memoir, Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant makes Edith Lewis, with whom Cather shared a home for nearly four decades, a relatively mi- nor character in Cather’s life, and yet occasionally, Lewis moves to the fore- front.