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Text of the Story. When Martha Hale opened the storm-door and got a cut of the north wind, she ran back for her big woolen scarf. As she hurriedly wound that round her head her eye made a scandalized sweep of her kitchen.
4 cze 2019 · Full text of A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell (1876 – 1948), a 1917 short story, and arguably this American author’s most enduring work.
Adapted from her 1916 play Trifles, Glaspell’s A Jury of Her Peers explores similar themes: male subjugation of women, sexism in the home and workplace, and the ways in which the law fails to protect women from violence. Start Reading. Download Full Text.
18 mar 2017 · Reviews. A short story from The Best Short Stories of 1917, edited by Edward J. O'Brien. Uploaded to the Internet Archive by user galdraken.
A Jury of Her Peers. " A Jury of Her Peers ", written in 1917, [1] is a short story by Susan Glaspell, loosely based on the 1900 murder of John Hossack (not to be confused with the famed abolitionist), which Glaspell covered while working as a journalist [2] for the Des Moines Daily News. [1] It is seen as an example of early feminist ...
In “A Jury of Her Peers,” Glaspell imagines why a woman might kill her husband and how other women might react to the murder. Read the free full text, the full story summary, the full story analysis, and explanations of important quotes from “A Jury of Her Peers.”.
260 A JURY OF HER PEERS. and said all the women-folks liked the telephones, and. that in this lonesome stretch of road it would be a good. thing — well, I said to Harry that that was what 1 was. going to say — though 1 said at the same time that I.
