| Her America : “A Jury of Her Peers” and Other Stories One of the preeminent authors of the early twentieth century, Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) produced fourteen ground-breaking plays, nine novels, and more than fifty short stories. Her work was popular and critically acclaimed during her lifetime, with her novels appearing on best-seller lists and her stories published in major magazines and in The Best American Short Stories . Many of her short works display her remarkable abilities as a humorist, satirizing cultural conventions and the narrowness of small-town life. And yet they also evoke serious questions--relevant as much today as during Glaspell's lifetime--about society's values and priorities and about the individual search for self-fulfillment. While the classic "A Jury of Her Peers" has been widely anthologized in the last several decades, the other stories Glaspell wrote between 1915 and 1925 have not been available since their original appearance. This new collection reprints "A Jury of Her Peers"--restoring its original ending--and brings to light eleven other outstanding stories, offering modern readers the chance to appreciate the full range of Glaspell's literary skills. Patricia Bryan is a professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With Thomas Wolf, she is the author of Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland (Iowa paperback, 2007) and numerous articles on Susan Glaspell. Martha Carpentier is a professor of English at Seton Hall University. Cofounder and president of the Susan Glaspell Society, she is the author of The Major Novels of Susan Glaspell , coeditor of Disclosing Intertextualities: The Stories, Plays, and Novels of Susan Glaspell , and editor of Susan Glaspell: New Directions in Critical Inquiry . |