A Jury of Her Peers Summary
Susan Glaspell

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more

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... Read more