Fidelity
de Susan Glaspell
Synopsis:
The story, which takes place in a small town in the American Midwest called Freeport (Iowa), an idyllic setting of tree-lined streets with white wooden houses in the middle of large gardens, revolves around a love scandal within high society. of this city: Ruth Holland, a young girl from a good family, the youngest daughter of the local banker, defies all the conventions and social mandates of the class to which she belongs by falling in love with a man older than her, married to a rich woman, and running away. with him to Colorado to start a life together.
Author biography:
Susan Keating Glaspell was born in 1876 in Davenport (Iowa), where she lived comfortably from her journalistic activity until the age of 36. She studied at Drake University—against local opinion that this university unfitted women for marriage. She was a society reporter and political current commentator. She wrote articles and stories for various magazines, and lived for long periods in Chicago and Paris. Her first novel, The Glory of the Conquered (1909), was a bestseller. In 1913 she married George Cram Cook and they settled in Provincetown, Cape Cod, within a close-knit community of writers. Her third novel, Fidelity, appeared in 1915, the same year she and her husband founded the Provincetown Players theater company and arts collective, for which she wrote ten plays. After Cook’s death in Greece in 1924, she lived for a time with a young writer, Norman Matson. Her drama Alison’s House won the Pulitzer Prize in 1931. Her other novels include Brook Evans (1928), The Morning is Near Us (1939), and Judd Rankin’s Daughter (1945). She died in Provincetown in 1948.
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