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Susan Glaspell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Susan Glaspell Society ... The purpose of the Susan Glaspell Society is the recognition of Susan Glaspell as a major American dramatist and fiction writer though the ongoing publication of high-quality scholarship and critical analysis of all her works, participation in national and international conferences,
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To most readers, Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) is still known primarily as the author of Trifles, the frequently anthologized, classic feminist play about two women's secret discovery of a wife's murder of her husband, or the short-story "A Jury of Her Peers," a re-writing of that piece.
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Susan Glaspell was born in 1882 in Davenport, Iowa. She graduated from Drake University and worked as a journalist on the staff of the Des Moines Daily News. When her stories began appearing in magazines such as Harper's and The Ladies' Home Journal, she gave up the newspaper business.
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Chapter 8: Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) ... As one of the founders of the Playwright's Theatre, also known as the Provincetown Players, Susan Glaspell led a revolution in American theater. Between 1916 and 1922, the Provincetown Players produced new plays by young playwrights like her and EO'N.
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Susan Glaspell; Lesson plans for Trifles ... PAL: Susan Glaspell; Primary works, selected bibliography, study questions. ... Susan Glaspell Trifles; Biography, e-text with explanatory hyperlinks, bibliography.
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Susan Glaspell is an interesting example of the late nineteenth-century woman writer, raised in the local color tradition, who radically altered her life and art after her marriage and moved east.
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Glaspell, who struggled with similar themes and concerns, inherited a rich legacy from these women. Indeed, when Susan Glaspell and her husband George Cook arrived in Greenwich Village in the middle of an artistic revival and renaissance, Glaspell began to write openly about these issues.
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Susan Glaspell's "Trifles" is a play about a small town domestic murder. Minnie Wright is accused of killing her husband, an oppressive, harsh, uncaring man. Glaspell titled the play "Trifles" to imply the feminist agenda of women being insignificant in the eyes of the domineering male society.
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