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Podcast: 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Episode: BEST OF (#35 OF 515) A JURY OF HER PEERS by SUSAN GLASPELL
Description: Ladies - Be sure to catch 1001 Stories From the Gilded Age (Oct 2024)Â This one doing very well righrt now! "A Jury of Her Peers", a tense drama written in 1917, is a short story by Susan Glaspell, loosely based on the 1900 murder of John Hossack , which Glaspell covered while working as a journalist[ for the Des Moines Iowa Daily News. It is seen as an example of early feminist literature because two female characters are able to solve a mystery that the male characters cannot. They are aided by their knowledge of women's psychology. Â The story was adapted in...