A Jury of Her Peers | Small Things Reconsidered Susan Glaspell's 'A Jury of Her Peers'
In the following excerpt from a longer essay, Hedges discusses the reality of women's lives in the nineteenth century.
Susan GlaspelFs "A Jury of her Peers" is by nowa small feminist classic. Published in 1917, rediscovered in the early 1970s and increasingly reprinted since then in anthologies and textbooks, it has become for both readers and critics a familiar and frequently revisited landmark on our "map of rereading." For Lee Edwards and Arlyn Diamond in 1973 it introduced us to the work of one of the important but forgotten women writers who were then being rediscovered; and its characters,' 'prairie matrons, bound by poverty and limited experience [who] right heroic battles on tiny battlefields,"...
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