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Category: Susan Glaspell

Posted on February 13, 2015June 21, 2016 by Roof Beam Reader · 3 Comments

Thoughts: Trifles (1916) by Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell's Trifles (1916) is a one-act play that would ultimately inspire another of her works, a short story called "A Jury of Her Peers." The story is loosely based on an actual event, the murder of John Hossack, which Glaspell reported on while working as a journalist in Des Moines, Iowa. Hossack's wife was accused of killing…

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