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Edith Lewis (December 22, 1882 – August 11, 1972) was a magazine editor at McClure's Magazine, the managing editor of Every Week Magazine, and an advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson. Lewis was Willa Cather's domestic partner and was named executor
She spent the last 39 years of her life with her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, before being diagnosed with breast cancer and dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. Lewis is buried beside her in a Jaffrey, New Hampshire plot. Cather achieved recognition as a novelist of the frontier and pioneer experience.
Ihr lesbisches Privatleben (mit der Schriftstellerin Edith Lewis) schirmte sie ab. Zum Zeitpunkt ihres Todes befahl sie, ihre Briefe zu verbrennen. Obwohl Tausende von Briefen der Zerstörung entgingen, verhindert Cathers Testament deren Veröffentlichung.
17. Apr. 2013 · Cather was most voracious in guarding — and, to a large degree, destroying — her the most personal of her letters. This is the only known surviving letter from Cather to her lifelong partner and literary executor, Edith Lewis, with whom Cather lived for the last 39 years of her life.
Lewis authorized E.K. Brown as Cather's first biographer and published her own memoir of Cather, Willa Cather Living (1953). She remained in their Park Avenue apartment after Cather's death and died there after a long period of illness and invalidism. She is buried at Cather's side in Jaffrey, NH.
18. Mai 2022 · In 1930, the novelist Willa Cather and her partner, advertising copywriter Edith Lewis, spent six months in Europe. In the hot month of August, they stayed at an old hotel in the spa town Aix-les-Bains, France, where Cather had stayed before. The two of them “so often admired” an “old French lady” they saw in the hotel lounge.
12. Aug. 1972 · Edith Lewis, author, critic and life‐long companion of Willa Cather, the Pulitzer Prize winning author who died in 1947, died after a long illness yesterday at her apartment at 570 Park Avenue....
