Fidelity: A Novel

by Susan Glaspell

"Fidelity: A Novel" by Susan Glaspell is a novel published in 1915. When Ruth Holland falls in love with a married man and flees her Midwestern town for Colorado, she defies every social expectation of her era. Eleven years later, she returns to face her fractured family and a community that refuses to forgive her choice. The novel explores complex questions of loyalty—to society, to family, and to oneself—through shifting perspectives that challenge romantic myths about love and marriage in early twentieth-century America.