Pope, Jessie
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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
פופ, ג'סי, 1868-1941
Name (Latin)
Pope, Jessie
Date of birth
1868
Date of death
1941
Place of birth
Leicester (England)
Place of death
Chagford (England)
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Creative writing Poetry
Occupation
Authors Poets
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
Sources of Information
- The shy age, 1914:t.p. (Jessie Pope)
- Oxford dictionary of national biography, WWW site, 9 Aug., 2011(Pope, Jessie, poet and writer; b. Leicester, 18 Mar., 1868; d. Chagford, Devon, 14 Dec., 1941)
Wikipedia description:
Jessie Pope (19 March 1868 – 14 December 1941) was an English poet, writer, and journalist, who remains best known for her patriotic, motivational poems published during World War I. Wilfred Owen wrote his 1917 poem Dulce et Decorum est to Pope, whose literary reputation has faded into relative obscurity as those of war poets such as Owen and Siegfried Sassoon have grown.
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