On Susan Glaspell's Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers"

On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Susan Glaspell was inspired by the sensational murder trial she had covered as a young reporter to write Trifles. Her short story version of Trifles, “A Jury of Her Peers,” reached an unprecedented one million readers in 1917. This collection of fresh essays celebrates the centennial of Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers”.