Some years later, the incident came back to haunt her. Shortly after reporting on this story, Glaspell quit journalism to write fiction. A reprint of Glaspell’s coverage of the actual case can be read here. She was found guilty, but later, the verdict was overturned on appeal. Margaret claimed that John had been murdered with an axe by an intruder. Neighbors believed that Margaret Hossack was an abused wife, and thus, she was the object of suspicion.
The case was a sensation, because Hossack’s wife Margaret was accused of killing him. Working as a journalist at the time of the incident in 1900, Glaspell covered it for the Des Moines Daily News. Glaspell’s inspiration was the true crime story of the murder of John Hossack, a 59-year-old farmer. Trifles was first performed at the Wharf Theater in Provincetown Massachusetts in August of 1916. It’s one of her most anthologized works, along with the 1917 short story she based upon this play, A Jury of Her Peers.
Trifles is a 1916 one-act play by the American author and playwright Susan Glaspell(1876 – 1948).
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