A JURY OF HER PEERS by SUSAN GLASPELL

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

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🗓️ 26 May 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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"A Jury of Her Peers", a tense drama written in 1917, is a short story by Susan Glaspell, loosely based on the 1900 murder of John Hossack , which Glaspell covered while working as a journalist[ for the Des Moines Iowa Daily News. It is seen as an example of early feminist literature because two female characters are able to solve a mystery that the male characters cannot. They are aided by their knowledge of women's psychology. The story was adapted into an episode of the 1950s TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It was also adapted into a 30-minute film by Sally Heckel in 1980. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. TWO NEW MEMBER ONLY SHOWS NOW AVAILABLE TO PATRONS! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Thank you. Join for one dollar a month and get THE BEST OF 1001, mostly ad free! Join at 2.99/month and up and get PRIME CUTS- visit us at http://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork and check us out! YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going to. The Oh, A jury of her peers was written by Susan Glassbell in 1917 as part of her one-act play
0:55.0	Trifles. It's based on a murder case she covered as a reporter for the
0:59.1	Des Moines Daily News. And now a jury of her peers by Susan Glassbell. When Martha Hale opened the
1:09.1	storm door and got cut of the north wind, She ran back for her big woolen scarf.
1:14.0	As she hurriedly wound that round her head, her eye made a scandalized sweep of her kitchen.
1:19.6	There was no ordinary thing that called her away.
1:23.0	It was probably further from ordinary than anything that had ever happened in Dixon County.
1:28.0	But what her I took in was that her kitchen was in no shape for leaving, her bread all ready for mixing, half the flowers sifted, and half unsifted.
1:38.0	She hated to see things half done, but she had been at that when the team from the town stopped to get Mr. Hale, and then the sheriff came running in to say his wife wished Mrs. Hale would come to, adding with a grin that he guessed she was getting scary and wanted another woman along.
1:56.1	So she had dropped everything right where it was.
2:00.5	Martha!
2:01.7	Now came her husband's impatient voice.
2:03.7	Don't keep folks waiting out here in the cold?
2:07.1	She again opened the storm door, and this time joined the three men and the one woman
2:11.6	waiting for her in the big two-seated buggy.
2:15.4	After she had the robes tucked around her, she took another look at the woman who sat beside
2:19.2	her on the back seat.
2:21.3	She had met Mrs Peters the year before at the county fair and things she remembered about her was that she didn't seem like a sheriff's wife.
2:28.0	She was small and thin and didn't have a strong voice.
2:32.0	Mrs. Gorman, Sheriff's wife, then and didn't have a strong voice.
2:33.5	Mrs. Gorman, sheriff's wife before Gorman went out and Peters came in, had a voice that somehow
2:39.3	seemed to be backing up the law with every word.
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