Trifles is an adaptation of “A Jury of Her Peers,” a short story inspired by a real trial that Glaspell reported on in Des Moines, Iowa.

Other plays by Glaspell include The Outside, The Verge, Inheritors, and Alison’s House, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1931.

John Millington Synge’s Riders to the Sea is a masterful one-act mystery play. In this play, women from the Aran Islands watch powerlessly as their husbands and sons risk and lose their lives to the sea while fishing.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg is a novel that tells the story of Idgie and Ruth, two women battling sexism and racism in a small Alabama town during the 1930s.

Eugene O’Neill, one of the most celebrated names in American drama, is perhaps the most famous playwright to come from the Provincetown Players, a small amateur theater company co-founded by Glaspell in 1915. Like Glaspell, O’Neill wrote several one-act “slice of life” plays that debuted in Provincetown, including Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone, The Long Voyage Home, and The Moon of the Caribbees.

Sandra Dallas’s The Diary of Mattie Spenser is a fictional narrative, presented in the form of a diary, about an Iowa woman who marries in 1865. Following her marriage, she journeys with her husband to the Colorado Territories, builds a sod house, raises children, and faces the many dangers of the nineteenth-century American frontier.