A Jury of Her Peers (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Glaspell
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The early 1900's
- Setting: Dickson County, in the American Midwest
- Principal Characters: Martha Hale, Lewis Hale, Henry Peters, Mrs. Peters, George Henderson
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Marriage, Friendship, Guilt, Midwest, Quilts or quilting, Violence, Women, Judges, Money, Conspiracies or conspirators, Birds, Intuition, Juries
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
The Story
Martha Hale is baking bread one cold March morning when the county's most extraordinary scandal forces her out of her kitchen. She has been asked by Sheriff Peters to assist his wife in gathering personal belongings for Minnie Wright, whom he has jailed on suspicion of murdering her husband. Martha approaches the Wrights’ isolated farmhouse with her husband, Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Peters, and George Henderson, the county attorney. She pauses before crossing the threshold, overwhelmed with guilt because she had never visited in the twenty years Minnie, her girlhood...
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