Trifles by Susan Glaspell | Resources

Trifles Further Reading

Ben-Zvi, Linda, editor. Susan Glaspell: Essays on Her Theater and Fiction, University of Michigan Press, 1995.

This useful collection includes sixteen essays examining several of Glaspell's plays and short stories. Four separate articles consider Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers."

Egan, Leona Rust. Provincetown as a Stage: Provincetown, the Provincetown Players, and the Discovery of Eugene O'Neill, Parnassus Imprints, 1994.

Egan's account of the Provincetown Players. Chronicles the group's production of plays by some of the most famous American playwrights of the early "little theatre" movement, including Glaspell and Eugene O'Neill.

Jones-Eddy, Julie. Homesteading Women: An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950, Macmillan, 1992.

The author interviewed several women for this account of the American West seen through the eyes of frontier women who raised families, built and kept homes, and survived the harsh rural life of the Colorado Territories.

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