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Edith Lewis (December 22, 1882 – August 11, 1972) was a magazine editor at McClure's Magazine, the managing editor of Every Week Magazine, and an advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson. Lewis was Willa Cather's domestic partner and was named executor
She spent the last 39 years of her life with her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, before being diagnosed with breast cancer and dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. Lewis is buried beside her in a Jaffrey, New Hampshire plot. Cather achieved recognition as a novelist of the frontier and pioneer experience.
17 de abr. de 2013 · Cather was most voracious in guarding — and, to a large degree, destroying — her the most personal of her letters. This is the only known surviving letter from Cather to her lifelong partner and literary executor, Edith Lewis, with whom Cather lived for the last 39 years of her life.
At McClure's, too, Cather connected with Edith Lewis, a person she knew from Lincoln who was to be her closest lifetime companion—the two took an apartment together just off Washington Square in 1908.
18 de mai. de 2022 · In 1930, the novelist Willa Cather and her partner, advertising copywriter Edith Lewis, spent six months in Europe. In the hot month of August, they stayed at an old hotel in the spa town Aix-les-Bains, France, where Cather had stayed before.
25 de set. de 2017 · You cannot, however, see Cather’s own grave. That is found in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where she liked to work in the autumn months. Buried beside her is Edith Lewis, her longtime companion.
20 de dez. de 2022 · Today, we reflect on Edith as the close companion of Willa Cather and the many chapters of her life. Edith Lewis was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on December 22nd, 1882. As a child, she attended school in Nebraska, eventually leaving the state for a college education in Massachusetts.
