Romantic Notions: Willa Cather and Isabelle McClung Hambourg

Posted by Sue Hallgarth on July 18, 2013 Cather had romantic “crushes” on her female school friends, fell deeply in love with a striking Pittsburgh girl, Isabelle McClung, and, after Isabelle’s marriage, spent much of her life with a devoted companion (and Cather’s first biographer), Edith Lewis. There are very few love letters in the Selected Letters, since Cather destroyed all her letters to...

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