A Lost Lady (Annotated)

Willa Cather's A Lost Lady (1923) is a finely controlled novel of memory, social change, and disappointed idealism. Through the recollections of Niel Herbert, a young man growing up in the western town of Sweet Water, Cather traces the decline of Marian Forrester, a captivating woman whose grace, intelligence, and sensual vitality seem to embody the promise of an earlier frontier aristocracy. The ...