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A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell.
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As early as 1922, Susan Glaspell was being hailed as "the playwright of woman's selfhood." Currently, this is the major claim for her lasting importance as a dramatist. Glaspell, however, was not mere...
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Susan Glaspell was a Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist and best-selling author who wrote fourteen plays, nine novels, and over fifty short stories, essays, and articles. Her life parallels the intelle...
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Susan Glaspell 's literary reputation derives chiefly from the fourteen plays she wrote between 1915 and 1930, most of them for the Provincetown Players. Along with Eugene O'Neill she was the most imp...
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Susan Glaspell was one of the founding figures of modern American drama and, along with Eugene O'Neill, one of the most prominent playwrights of the little theater movement in the 1910s and 1920s. The...
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In the following excerpt, Alkalay-Gut analyzes details of “A Jury of Her Peers.”
The continuing popularity of Susan Glaspell's story, “Jury of Her Peers,” and the pl...
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In the excerpt below, Aarons stresses that American pioneer women needed the support of a larger female community in order to withstand the isolation of pioneer life.
American fiction written by women...
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In this excerpt from a larger treatment of gender-based reading, Fetterley discusses how Glaspell attempted in “A Jury of Her Peers” to teach male readers how to “read” fem...
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In the following essay, Mustazza maintains that when Glaspell adapted the play Trifles into the short story, “A Jury of Her Peers,” she changed the focus from the so-called trivial detai...
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In the following essay, Hallgren demonstrates how readers of “A Jury of Her Peers” are meant to collude with Glaspell-as-narrator in the same ways the female characters band together to ...
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In the excerpt below, first published in 1986, Hedges reconstructs women's social history of the nineteenth-century American West to explain the symbolism of Glaspell's story “A J...
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John Wright has been found murdered at a farmhouse in rural Iowa in the early 1900's. Minnie Wright, John's wife, has been accused of the murder, being as she was the only person with John at the ti...
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Teaching A Jury of Her Peers
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Susan Glaspell
Critical Essay by Karen Alkalay-Gut
A Jury of Her Peers
