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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. The book balances an atmospheric portrait of antebellum Virginia against an unblinking view of the lives of Sapphira's ...
3.70. 1,625 ratings206 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. Genres Fiction Classics Historical Fiction American Novels African American Historical.
Sapphira and the Slave Girl is a detailed portrait of Henry and Sapphira Colbert, whose backcountry mill once belonged to Sapphira’s wealthier, eastern Virginia family. The miller is described as “a man of upright character, straightforward and determined,” whose eyes “were puzzling; dark and grave.” Sapphira, meanwhile, is ...
In 1856, Sapphira is a planter’s wife who has grown jealous of Nancy, an attractive maid whom she wrongly suspects of being her husband’s mistress. Sapphira and her husband are not close with...
Sapphira and the Slave Girl, novel by Willa Cather, published in 1940. The novel is set in Cather’s native Virginia in the mid-1800s on the estate of a declining slaveholding family. Sapphira and the Slave Girl centres on the family’s matriarch, Sapphira Colbert, and her attempt to sell Nancy Till,
would plot against the young slave girl Nancy and why everyone around Sap phira could be so complicit in her plot. Even as Cather herself shifts the ground beneath our feet, we seek answers about this novel of desperation, abuse, and culpability. Is Sapphira, marginalized by age, illness and gender, actually the center of the tale? How can she ...
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. The struggles of these three strong-willed women provide rich material for ...
