Susan Glaspell

(1876-1948)

School of Thought: Feminism

  1848 Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx (MCP)
 

1861 Confederated States formed (WCD)

Abraham Lincoln 16th US President (WHG)
  1863 Battle of Gettysburg (GNB)
  1865 North Wins Civil War (IBE)
  1869 Women suffrage movement formed two national organizations (FAS)
  1872 Susan B Anthony and others arrested for voting in the Presidential election (GGC)
1876 Born in Davenport, Iowa (ASS)  

1882 Born in Davenport, Iowa (BFS)

  
 

1893 Women granted full voting rights in New Zealand (NZH)

Sears launches full scale Catalogue (LOD)
  1895 Major railroad trunk lines, as we know them today, were completed, as with some telephone lines (LOD)
  1898 US declares war on Spain (FFF)
1899 Graduated from Drake University (ASS)  
  1902 Marshall Fields and Macys’ well established in Chicago and Manhattan respectively (LOD)
1907 Met George Cram Cook, a rebel against romantic provincialism (ASS)  
  1909 Boys Scout Inception (WCD)
1910-1920 Involvement with and helped found the radical feminist movement, Heterodoxy (LSC)  
1912 Published first book, Lifted Masks (HYC)  
1913 First Marriage to George Cram Cook (ASS)  
1914 Wrote The Rules of the Institution completed. Written after defying society by taking Cook from another woman (UNC)  
1915 Her and Husband founded Provincetown Players, emphasizing drama and theater (ASS) 1915 Girls Scout Inception (DEA)
1916 Trifles is written (UNC)  
1917 Trifles rewritten and changed to A Jury of Her Peers and performed by the Provincetown Players (ASS) 1917 US enters WWI (WWI)
  1919 Treaty of Versailles (DIP)
1920 Halted prose in short fiction, concentrating on play writing (ASS)  
1921 The Verge is written (ASS)  
1922 Chains of Dew completed (UNC)  

1925 Published a volume of recently deceased husband’s poems, Greek Coins (UOI)

  
1926 Husband dies in Greece (GGC)  
  10/29/1929 Black Tuesday: Start of the Great Depression (GFA)
1931 Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Allison House, play (ASS)  
1937 Placed in charge of Midwest Play Bureau by Federal Theater (RFT)  
  12/7/1941 Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor (HNM)
12/8/1941 US declares war on Japan (WWII) (HNM)
1945 Published Judd Rankin’s Daughter (PAL)  
  1946 Nazi War Criminals tried in Nuremberg Trials (YEL)
1948 Died in Provincetown, Massachusetts (ASS)  
  1963 Equal Pay Act (EEOC)
  1964 The Civil Rights Act (EEOCG)
  1967 Presidential Order prohibiting against the discrimination of women by Federal Government Contractors (NZH)

Exceptional Links:

Online Communist Manifesto

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/%7Ebrians/hum_303/manifesto.html

Susan Glaspell Site: PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
An Ongoing Online Project © Paul P. Reuben

http://www.drama21c.net/writers/glaspell.htm

Susan Glaspell's Analysis of the Midwestern Character. Noe, Marcia. From Books at Iowa 27 November 1977) Copyright: The University of Iowa
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Bai/noe.htm

Bedford/StMartins Links

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/drama/glaspell.htm

 

Works Cited:

  1. ASS: American Short Stories Seventh Edition -- Compiled by Hitchcock, Bert. Kouidis, Virginia M. Current-Garcia, Eugene. Pearson Education, Inc. 2002.
  2. BFS: Bedford/StMartins <http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/drama/glaspell.htm>
  3. DEA: <http://deafness.about.com/library/weekly/aa032700.htm>
  4. DIP: Kissinger, Henry. Diplomacy. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1994.
  5. EEOC: <http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/epa.html>
  6. EEOCG: <http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/vii.html>
  7. FAS: DuBois, Ellen Carol. Feminism and suffrage : the emergence of an independent women's movement in America, 1848-1869. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1980, c1978.
  8. FFF: The Future of Freedom Foundation <http://www.fff.org/freedom/0590c.asp>
  9. SAP:: <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jgig.htm>
  10. GFA: Gross' Anatomy of Finance: A Text for Money Management. Stuart E. Gross. 1996
  11. GGC: United States v. Susan B. Anthony: 1873 <http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/trials/anthony.htm>
  12. GNB: Borrit, Gabor. The Gettysburg nobody knows. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
  13. HNM: <http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-1.htm>
  14. HYC: <http://www.hycyber.com/MYST/AH_ga.html>
  15. IBE: Memories of the Civil War and Slavery <http://iberia.vassar.edu/1896/civilwar.html>
  16. LOD: Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture -- by William Leach. Vintage Books September 1994.
  17. LSC: “Susan Glaspell's Trifles and A Jury of Her Peers: Woman Abuse in a Literary and Legal Context” Angel, Marina. <http://www.lawsite.ca/51301/angel.htm>
  18. MCP: Manifesto of the Communist Party Marx, Karl and Engels, Frederick.1848. <http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html
  19. NZH: New Zealand women get the vote <http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/Suffragists/SuffIntro.htm#1>
  20. PAL::<http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap8/glaspell.html>
  21. RFT: <http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Bai/farran.htm>
  22. UNC: <http://www.ibiblio.org/uncpress/chapters/ozieblo_susan.html>
  23. UOI: <http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Bai/noe.htm>
  24. WCD: Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 10th Edition prinicipal copyright
  25. WHG: Welcome to the White House 1993 <http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html >
  26. WWI: Marshall, S. L. A. The American heritage history of World War I,
    New York] American Heritage Pub. Co.; book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster. 1993.
  27. YEL: <http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm>