Cather Studies, Volume 8The essays in Cather Studies, Volume 8 explore the many locales and cultures informing Willa Cathers fiction. A lifelong Francophile, Cather first visited France in 1902 and returned repeatedly throughout her life. Her visits to France influenced not only her writing but also her interpretation of other worlds: for example, while visiting the American Southwest in 1912, a region that informed her subsequent works, she first viewed that landscape