Pub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190652876.003.0003
Melissa J. Homestead
Edith Lewis moved to Greenwich Village in 1903 to pursue literary work and Bohemian life. Willa Cather visited her there twice before moving to the Village herself in 1906 to become an editor at McClure’s Magazine, the staff of which Lewis also joined. This chapter argues that Lewis’s editorial collaboration with Cather emerged out of their work at McClure’s. It also argues that when they moved in together in 1908, they followed the example of Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Fields, whom Cather had met while working for McClure’s in Boston. Cather left magazine work to take up full-time authorship, but Lewis continued working at McClure’s and then Every Week. Lewis gave up writing bylined fiction and poetry, but together she and Cather merged pragmatism and idealism, the market and aesthetics.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190652876.003.0006
Melissa J. Homestead
This chapter reconstructs Cather and Lewis’s two decades of vacationing as part of an all-woman resort community of Whale Cove on Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy. There, Cather and Lewis enjoyed outdoor recreation and the company of like-minded women, and they also worked intensively on the writing and editing of Cather’s fiction. They built their own cottage in the late 1920s, just as both women’s parents were declining and then died, making Grand Manan an important site for mourning and recovery as well. In the early 1930s, they invited women in their families to be their guests there. Finally, however, travel to the remote island became unsustainable, and they never returned after 1940.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190652876.003.0002
Melissa J. Homestead
This chapter describes Edith Lewis’s family history, childhood, and education as a background to her first meeting with Willa Cather in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1903. Because of Lewis’s deeply rooted New England family history, her Nebraska childhood, her elite eastern college education, and her plans to move to New York to pursue literary work, Cather found powerfully concentrated in Lewis two geographically located versions of the past she valued: the Nebraska of her own childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, and a New England–centered literary culture she encountered through reading. Cather also glimpsed in Lewis the future to which she herself aspired, the glittering promise of literary New York.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190652876.003.0007
Melissa J. Homestead
After losing their Greenwich Village apartment in 1927, Cather and Lewis had no permanent home in New York City, living together instead at the Grosvenor Hotel when both were in the city. In 1932, they finally leased an apartment on Park Avenue. The first half of this chapter reconstructs their life together in the 1930s and 1940s living on Park Avenue and traveling to Europe and Mt. Desert Island in Maine. The chapter includes their responses to the Great Depression and World War II, the formation of new friendships and maintenance of old ones, the deeper intertwining of their families, and Cather’s declining health. After describing Cather’s death and burial, the second half of the chapter tells the story of Edith Lewis’s mourning for Cather in the years immediately after Cather’s death and her work as Cather’s literary executor.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190652876.003.0005
Melissa J. Homestead
In 1919, Edith Lewis began her long career as an advertising copywriter at the J. Walter Thompson Co. This chapter considers the advertising campaigns for Woodbury’s Facial Soap and Jergens Lotion, for which Lewis was the sole copywriter in the 1920s, in relation to Willa Cather’s fiction and aesthetic theories. Lewis’s embrace of advertising as a career and Cather’s rejection of modern consumerism seem to register a conflict within their relationship. However, it could also be productive, even playful, as the two women engaged in an implicit dialogue about the pleasures and perils of modern materialism and the desires it could engender. The chapter also considers how Lewis shaped Cather’s approach to celebrity, focusing on Edward Steichen’s Vanity Fair portrait of Cather in 1927 and contrasting Cather’s approach to celebrity and advertising with that of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
1919年，伊迪丝·刘易斯在J. Walter Thompson公司开始了她作为广告文案的漫长职业生涯。本章考虑了20世纪20年代伍德伯里肥皂和杰根斯乳液的广告活动，刘易斯是这两家公司的唯一文案，与威拉·凯瑟的小说和美学理论有关。刘易斯对广告事业的拥抱和凯瑟对现代消费主义的拒绝似乎表明了他们关系中的冲突。然而，它也可能是富有成效的，甚至是有趣的，因为两个女人参与了关于现代物质主义的快乐和危险以及它可能产生的欲望的含蓄对话。这一章还考虑了刘易斯是如何塑造凯瑟对名人的态度的，重点是爱德华·斯泰肯1927年在《名利场》上对凯瑟的肖像，并将凯瑟对名人和广告的态度与f·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德的做法进行了对比。
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Pub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190652876.003.0004
Melissa J. Homestead
Willa Cather and Edith Lewis traveled together to the American Southwest in 1915, 1916, 1925, and 1926, and southwestern travel became their shared passion, an escape from the pressures of modern city life into a realm of adventure. In the Southwest, Cather also sought experiences and information necessary for her creative work, and she transformed experiences she shared with Lewis into fiction. They informed Cather’s novels The Professor’s House and Death Comes for the Archbishop. This chapter describes their experiences as tourists and as women playing at being western cowboys. The chapter also gives full treatment to Lewis’s role as Cather’s editorial collaborator, using The Professor’s House as an example.
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