![]() ![]() She is the daughter of the local minister and has a reputation for being different and aloof. When the book starts, she is eleven years old. The first one recounts Thea’s childhood in the fictional town of Moonstone, Colorado. Thea’s story is a combination of Cather’s own autobiographical experiences growing up in Nebraska and the life of a famous Scandinavian-American opera singer named Olive Fremstad. ![]() The book follows the life of Thea Kronborg as she grows up in a small American prairie town and follows her ambition to be an internationally renowned singer. The trilogy is considered to be some of Cather’s finest work, celebrated for bringing to life the rural West and its people in a way that had never been done before. It is the second part of a thematic trilogy by Cather which tells stories of women in the emerging prairies of the American West. The Song of the Lark is a 1915 novel by Willa Cather. ![]()
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