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Susan Glaspell | | Variant Name: |
Susan Keating Glaspell, Susan (Keating) Glaspell | | Birth Date: |
July 1, 1876July 1, 1882 | | Death Date: |
July 27, 1948 | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Female |
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 Biography of Susan Glaspell
4993 words, approx. 16.6 pages
 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 merely a feminist but also one of the few experimental pla... summary from source:
Biography of Susan Glaspell
4992 words, approx. 16.6 pages
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 value of her contribution to American drama rests lar... summary from source:
Biography of Susan Glaspell
3276 words, approx. 10.9 pages
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 intellectual and cultural patterns that were developing in Ame...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 A Jury of Her Peers Information
349 words, approx. 1 pages
 "A Jury of Her Peers" is a short story by Susan Glaspell, loosely based on the murder of John Hossack, which Glaspell covered while working as a journalist. It is seen as an example of early feminist literature, because two female characters are able to...
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 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Jury of peers
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A jury of their peers
02/27/2001: 555 words, approx. 2 pages Baseball Notes A jury of their peers Some fellow stars have no sympathy for complainers Bloomberg News, AP Tuesday, February 27, 2001 Think all major-leaguers are sympathetic toward Frank Thomas, Gary Sheffield and any other millionaires who say they're... summary from source:
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6/20/2006: 356 words, approx. 1 pages A 79-year-old grandmother who used a cane to walk to her seat in the courtroom Tuesday was painted by prosecutors as so consumed by a jealous rage last year that she shot her ex-boyfriend four times in the head. Lena...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Elaine Hedges
7,372 words, approx. 25 pages
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 Jury of Her Peers.”
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Critical Essay by Sherri Hallgren
6,954 words, approx. 23 pages
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 mete out justice.
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Critical Essay by Victoria Aarons
4,373 words, approx. 15 pages
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.
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 78%A Jury of Her Peers
413 words, approx. 1 pages
Discusses the story, A Jury of Her Peers, by Susan Glasspell. Summarizes the story's plot. Analyzes the character of Minnie, tracing her personality change and ultimate downfall.
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