Jury of Her Peers, A.
• Glaspell, Susan. A Jury Of Her Peers. London: Ernest Benn, Limited, 1927.
Narrow 16mo, 39pp; mottled gold wrappers (self dust-jacketed) stamped in black. A trifle dusty, else fine in custom-made case. Queen’s Quorum lists this as HQR or very rare, and describes it as a piece of crime fiction. Fine.
First edition. 1/250 copies signed by the writer as called for. Susan Glaspell had written a one-act play called Trifles suggested by a murder account she had read in an Iowa newspaper. After the play had become famous, Glaspell recast the material into a short story, calling it “A Jury of Her Peers.” Considered a classic of feminist literature with its provocative treatment of gender and women’s anger, this story of a wife dominated by a cold and unfeeling husband was made into a fine movie for television within the past few years.
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