Jessop, George H.

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Jessop, George H. (1851?–1915), playwright. Born in Ireland, he was educated at Trinity College and used his small inheritance to come to America in 1873. His first play, A Gentleman from Nevada (1880), about an uncouth American, was accused of plagiarism and bad writing by the critics, but was popular with the public. His next work, Sam'l of Posen (1881), centered on a Jewish peddler. For several years afterward he collaborated with William Gill on a series of similar comedies with melodramatic overtones: In Paradise (1883), Facts; or, His Little Hatchet [later called Our Governor] (1883), Stolen Money (1884), Mam'zelle (1884), and A Bottle of Ink (1885). Subsequent works (alone or with others) included the romantic Irish comedy Myles Aroon (1889), the melodramatic comedy A Gold Mine (1889), the melodrama The Great Metropolis (1889), the comedy On Probation (1889), the crime drama The Power of the Press (1891), and Irish romances Mavourneen (1891) and The Irish Artist (1894).

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