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Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940. It is the story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young slave. The book balances an atmospheric portrait of antebellum Virginia against an unblinking view of the lives of Sapphira's ...
Sapphira and the Slave Girl. Willa Cather, Hermione Lee (Introduction) 3.70. 1,625 ratings206 reviews. Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave. One of Cather's later works.
SUMMARY. Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) is the last novel by Willa Cather and the Virginia-born writer’s only book set entirely in the state. Based on an incident in Cather’s own family, in which her maternal grandmother helped a slave escape in 1856, the novel details the complicated marriage of Henry and Sapphira Colbert ...
Persecution of a beautiful mulatto slave girl by her jealous and invalid mistress in Virginia just before and after the Civil War. A booksellers' sample copy with table of contents and specimen pages at the beginning; the remaining leaves in the book are blank. Title page printed in black only.
Sapphira and the Slave Girl, novel by Willa Cather, published in 1940. The novel is set in Cather’s native Virginia in the mid-1800s on the estate of a declining slaveholding family. Sapphira and the Slave Girl centres on the family’s matriarch, Sapphira Colbert, and her attempt to sell Nancy Till,
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would plot against the young slave girl Nancy and why everyone around Sap phira could be so complicit in her plot. Even as Cather herself shifts the ground beneath our feet, we seek answers about this novel of desperation, abuse, and culpability. Is Sapphira, marginalized by age, illness and gender, actually the center of the tale?
