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Women in the trees

U.S. women's short stories about battering and resistance, 1839-1994

by Susan Koppelman Cornillon

FictionAmerican fictionAbused wivesAmerican Short storiesFamily violenceWomen authorsAbused womenMarital conflict

Stories on domestic violence over the past two centuries and the way some women handled it. In Susan Glaspell's A Jury of Her Peers, a wife declares she is such a sound sleeper she never heard the killers who strangled her husband with a rope as the two slept side-by-side.

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Book data: Open Library