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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.
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. Willa Cather, Hermione Lee (Introduction) 3.70. 1,631 ratings207 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.
Sapphira and the Slave Girl centres on the family’s matriarch, Sapphira Colbert, and her attempt to sell Nancy Till, a slave girl of mixed descent. Sapphira’s plot is foiled by her husband, Henry, and their widowed daughter, Rachel Blake.
Sapphira is a slave owner who feels she has come down in the world and channels her resentments into jealousy of her beautiful mulatto slave, Nancy. Sapphira’s daughter Rachel, an...
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.
Sapphira is a slave owner who feels she has come down in the world and channels her resentments into jealousy of her beautiful mulatto slave, Nancy. Sapphira’s daughter Rachel, an abolitionist, opposes her mother’s increasingly shocking attempts to persecute Nancy.
