Glaspell, Susan - Bartholow V. Crawford (essay date 1930)
Bartholow V. Crawford (essay date 1930)
[In the essay below, Crawford presents an overview ofGlaspell's works up to 1930 and discusses the influence of her Iowa upbringing on her writing.]
Unlike some of the literary great, who, in making themselves into cosmopolites, have travelled so far actually and figuratively from the place of their birth as to pass quite out of any connection with it, Susan Glaspell is still at heart a daughter of Iowa. The surroundings of her girlhood, it is evident, made an ineffaceable impression upon her memory. While some of the stories in Lifted Masks, her first volume, have a Chicago background, and at least one other, that of Paris, several have the settings that she knew so well while an undergraduate at Drake University, and a newspaper woman, covering the doings of the legislature. To her drama, The Inberitors, she has given a setting strongly suggestive of Davenport, with its references to Black...
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