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Biographies and general resources

  • Scribbling Women's A Jury of Her Peers page. Has lesson plans, a number of great photos, a biography, and you can listen to a recording of the play.
  • Research on the Provincetown Playhouse. A nice informative essay on the dramatic group founded by Glaspell and her husband. Includes photos.
  • The PAL page on Glaspell. Includes biography, bibliography, and study questions regarding Glaspell's work.
  • Modern American Women Writers a page devoted to Modernist women writers, includes Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Susan Glaspell. Has bio, exploration of major themes in the work, and a short bibliography, developed by Amari Verastegui.
  • A nice newspaper article from the Provincetown Banner on Glaspell. Has a nice photo.
  • The Encarta Encylopedia entry on Glaspell. Features a short hypertext biography and links to other resources on Glaspell.
  • Some responses to Trifles, from the Community College of Denver
  • Encyclopedia Brittanica's page-- has a great photo of a younger Glaspell, as well as basic biography.
  • Another biography page from Addison Wesley Longman, for the anthology by Kennedy and Gioia. Includes a longish bio of early, and later years, as well as critical discussion of her literary career.
  • A short page on Glaspell, concentrating on her as a dramatist.
  • Another short biography from the The Women's Stories Websites "Week's Famous and Infamous Women"
  • Short annotation of Glaspell's works, from the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database. Gives a bit of plot summary, and some general themes for A Jury of Her Peers.
  • A hypertext annotated discussion of Glaspell from the Teaching History Online page. Has some annoyingly predominant ads, but a good photo of a young Glaspell.
  • A publically available essay from Theatre Topics on Glaspell's work. From Johns Hopkins Press titled "Building on the Abyss: Susan Glaspell's The Verge in Production" by Stephen J. Bottoms.
  • A lesson plan on Trifles, includes questions and assignments for the play. Some discussion of the play's major themes.
  • Teaching Resources from a collection of teaching Resources for the Heath Anthology. Has short bio, short bibliography and issues for students.
  • Literature: What Makes A Good Short Story? Learn about the elements of a good short story, using "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell as a case study, on this page from a project inspired by programs from Literary Visions, a video series in the Annenberg/CPB Multimedia Collection. Has a full text version of the short story, and an interactive exploration of the elements of a short story.
  • Informative biography and some critical introduction to Glaspell, from Dr. Karen A. Droisen at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for her ENG 232: Introduction to World Lit II course. Has a list of questions for consideration.
  • Constance J. Ostrowski's Deliberative Rhetoric in Susan Glaspell's Trifles : Women's Ways of Knowing online version of a paper presented at the 1996 National Women's Studies conference.
  • American Literature Research and Analysis Web Site A page produced by the students at the University of South Florida in Fort Myers under the direction of Dr. Jim Wohlpart that contains a number of essays on Trifles.
  • A larger collection of student essays on Trifles from a course, English 370 in Fall 1996 Preliminary Essay 2 Archive 96. The Assignment called for essays focused on the character construction in a number of plays from the early decades of the 20th century.
  • A short essay on The Treatment of Women in "Trifles" by students at the Virginia Beach campus of TCC, Donna Dooley, Michael M., Mike Rice, and Jonathan "Snowolf" Weadon are credited.

Online Versions of her Work


  • The Man of Flesh and Blood. 1904 Hypertext of this short story, originally published in Harper's Monthly From the Univeristy of Virginia Library.
  • In the Face of His Constituents.HTML from the University of Virginia Library, a reproduction of the 1st Edition from Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903 . Originally published in Harper's Monthly 107 (Oct. 1903): 757-762.
  • A Jury of Her Peers
    • HTML with commentary at learner.org
    • HTML 1917, from the University of Virginia Library.
    • Trifles: A Play in One Act 1920 first verison is HTML from the University of Virginia Library
    • Another online verison of Trifles, the dramatic/play version of the story.

This page created March 14, 2001. By Kim Wells.

For Research on Susan Glaspell.