Susan Glaspell (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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The regional elements in Susan Glaspell’s fiction derive from her midwestern roots. She was born in Davenport, Iowa, and was graduated from Drake University in Des Moines. She began her career as a journalist for local newspapers and later published short stories in popular women’s magazines. Her first novel, The Glory of the Conquered, was published in 1909.
In 1911, she left Iowa for Greenwich Village, New York, and in 1913, she married George Cram Cook. The move and the marriage transformed her life and writing. Under Cook’s influence,...
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