Susan Glaspell
American
Susan Glaspell was a notable American author and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright. - AsNotedIn
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- Father Elmer S Glaspell
Susan Glaspell was a notable American author and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1876/07/01 | Susan Keating Glaspell is born in Davenport, Iowa to Elmer Glaspell and his wife Alice Keating Glaspell. | Born | |||||
| 1891/00/00 | Glaspell family move to a house on the bluffs of Davenport, a few blocks from the crest. This will remain their home throughout Susan's life. | Home | Susan Glaspell House | Davenport | |||
| 1897/09/00 | Susan Glaspell enrolls at Drake University where she will major in philosophy and become a champion debator. | Work | Drake University Campus Historic District | Des Moines | |||
| 1898/06/00 | After graduating from Drake University, Susan Glaspell is hired as a job as a reporter for the Des Moines Daily News where she will report on statehouse and legislative activities. | Work | Des Moines | Iowa | |||
| 1900/12/03 | Soon after the murder of John Hossack is first reported, Susan Glaspell is assigned to report on his homicide. "I was sent down-state to do a murder trial, and I never forgot going into the kitchen of a woman locked up in town." SG | Work | Trifles (One-Act Play) | Warren County, IA | |||
| 1914/04/00 | Spring of 1914, Susan Glaspell and George Cook buy 564 Commercial. With celebrated painter Charles Demuth as interior designer, Cook works as bricklayer, plumber and carpenter as needed. | Home | Cook Glaspell House | Provincetown | |||
| 1914/07/00 | Due to an unspecified heart lesion, Glaspell's doctor tells her she cannot climb stairs. From pipes, planks and ropes, Cook constructs an elevator from the kitchen to the second floor. | Health | Cook Glaspell House | Provincetown | |||
| 1914/08/00 | During the summer, Cook works on the sundial designing a sculptural base that includes four nude women. Using Glaspell as a model, Cook sculpts Dawn, Noon, Sunset and the North Star. Glaspell provides plaster and water. | Life | Cook Glaspell House | Provincetown | |||
| 1915/07/15 | The Provincetown Players begin: Artists present two plays on the veranda of Hutchins Hapgood and Neith Boyce's cottage. 621 Commercial St, Provincetown. The plays are "Constancy" by Neith Boyce and "Suppressed Desires" by George Cook and Susan Glaspell. | Playwright | Suppressed Desires (One-Act Play) | Provincetown | Massachusetts | ||
| 1916/00/00 | Glaspell writes Trifles: I went out on the wharf, sat alone on one of our wooden benches without a back, and looked a long time at that bare little stage. After a time the stage became a kitchen. I hurried in from the wharf to write down what I had seen. | Author | Trifles (One-Act Play) | Cook Glaspell House | Provincetown | ||
| 1916/06/00 | As they stroll down Commercial St, Glaspell ask Carlin, "Terry haven't you a play to read us? "No", he replies. "I don't write, I just think. And sometimes talk. But Mr O'Neil has got a whole trunk full of plays." O'Neill has "Thirst" and a small box. | Producer | Provincetown Historic District | Provincetown | |||
| 1916/08/08 | "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell premieres at the Wharf Theater in Provincetown, Mass. | Author | Trifles (One-Act Play) | Provincetown | Massachusetts | ||
| 1917/00/00 | Susan Glaspell writes "A Jury of Her Peers": I had meant to do it as a short story, but the stage took it for its own. - SG | Author | A Jury of Her Peers (short story) | ||||
| 1917/03/05 | "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell is published by Everyweek. | Author | A Jury of Her Peers (short story) | ||||
| 1948/07/28 | Susan Glaspell dies of viral pneumonia at aged 72 at home in Provincetown, Massachusetts. | Died | Cook Glaspell House | Provincetown |
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