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First published in 1917 in Every Week Magazine, “A Jury of Her Peers” has become Susan Glaspell’s best known story
. With a circulation of over half a million, the magazine provided many readers with their first opportunity to read Glaspell’s progressive fiction. She was inspired to write the story and Trifles, the one-act play on which it is based, by the 1901 trial of a woman accused of murdering her husband. Glaspell covered the trial as a young journalist. In “A Jury of Her Peers,” Glaspell imagines why a woman might kill her husband and how other women might react to the murder.Read a full story summary, a full story analysis, and explanations of important quotes from “A Jury of Her Peers.”
