Department of English
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
A Jury of Her Peers
(1917)
Susan
Glaspell
(July 1, 1876 – July 27, 1948)
Notes
256
storm-door: an additional door placed outside an ordinary outside
door for protection against severe weather (Merriam-Webster)
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Characters
Martha Hale, Mrs. Hale –
Mrs. Peters – "small and thin and didn't have a strong
voice" (257)
Minnie Foster, Mrs. Wright – married to John Wright for twenty years
(257)
Mr. Peters, Sheriff Peters – "a heavy man with a big voice, who was
particularly genial with the law-abiding" (257)
Mr. Hale, Lewis Hale –
Mr. John Wright –
Mr. Henderson, George Henderson, young Henderson – county attorney (258)
Harry – "Mrs. Hale's oldest boy" (259)
Mrs. Gorman – "Mrs. Gorman, sheriff's wife before Gorman went out and Peters came in, had a voice that somehow seemed to be backing up the law with every word" (257)
Dr. Lloyd – (263)
Frank – (280)
Time
Morning – "cold March morning" ()
March – "cold March morning" ()
Places
Dickson County – "it was probably farther from ordinary than anything that had ever happened in Dickson County" (256)
the Wright Place – "It looked very lonesome this cold March morning. It had always been a lonesome-looking place. It was down in a hollow, and the poplar trees around it were lonesome-looking trees." (257)
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Further Reading
The Best American Short Stories of the Century. Eds. John Updike and Katrina Kenison. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Print. (Arts Library)
Hedges, Elaine. "Small Things Reconsidered:
'A Jury of Her Peers.'" Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary
Journal 12.1(1986): 89–110. Print.
Showalter, Elaine. A Jury of Her Peers:
American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. New
York: Knopf, 2009. Print. [Arts
Library]
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