A Jury of Her Peers Susan Glaspell was in born in Davenport, Iowa on 1876. She is an American fiction writer that usually writes about women in the society. After graduated from Drake University, she became a journalist, short-story writer, and novelist. She married an American writer George Cram Cook in 1913. (MS Encarta Encyclopedia) Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” is a short story that presents to us the gender conflict in society. In …showed first 75 words of 2961 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2961 total…could be. Glaspell in this story showed that the activities in which the women of her day engaged were every bit as important as those of men. What’s more, Glaspell showed that men do not appreciate women, not because they are inherently valueless, but because men and women think and communicate differently. Not better or worse -- just differently. In short, Glaspell glorified women’s lives by laying them bare for all to see.