Who are your peers? Or, more precisely, whom do you consider your peers? And are they the same folks you would want to sit in judgment of you on a jury? These provocative questions animate Elaine Showalter’s survey of American women writers, A Jury of Her Peers. Showalter takes her title from a 1917 short story by Susan Glaspell in which a farm woman is accused of murdering h (...)
October 09, 2009
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A Jury of Her PeersAmerican Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx Elaine ShowalterAlfred A. Knopf, $30, 608 pp.
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