![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Roseboro published La Farge alongside Cather in McClure’s and the three mixed socially in Greenwich Village. There she met the Catholic artist John La Farge, whom she would watch paint the altarpiece of Cather’s favorite church: Manhattan’s Church of the Ascension (Episcopal). In 1882, Roseboro left the South to try acting in New York City. In her adulthood, the Catholic Church fascinated her: “What can be said of the imagination of the bunch that would call themselves as a final nomenclature-Protestants! What a tribute to the body protested against!” But despite her Protestant upbringing, Roseboro read Belloc. She was born in Tennessee in 1857 to a Congregationalist minister and his Methodist wife. Roseboro was also interested in Catholicism. If you have the courage to throw the away, and sit down and re-write it from ’s point of view, you have a great book.” Cather rewrote it, and Roseboro judged the result “the book of a lifetime.” But you have told your novel through the wrong character’s eyes, from the wrong point of view. When Cather showed her the manuscript of My Ántonia after multiple rejections, Roseboro gave bold advice: “You have really great material. As an editor at muckraking McClure’s Magazine, Roseboro noticed Cather’s prairie poetry and promoted her first volume of short stories. This year marks the centenary of Willa Cather’s My Ántonia, and we can thank Viola Roseboro for its creation. ![]()
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