Places

Introduction: Accounting for Place and Space in Willa Cather's Letters

Places and spaces factor into The Willa Cather Archive's letters in many ways. Cather wrote from particular places, as well as about them. She also wrote to and about particular people from these places. Below I provide maps that help visualize some of these relationships. I also explore how and if a letter's place of origin - where it was written from - serves as a feature that helps distinguish one letter from another through word feature analysis as well as an exploratory and rudimentary sentiment analysis.

Please see a Location Analysis with place- and space-based visualizations that help guide readers to make connections about how a letter's place of origin could interact with people Cather wrote to and about and the language she used.