Jessie Pope is no longer a household name, but during World War One she was one of the most widely read poets. After decades in obscurity she has re-emerged to become a fixture on the English ...

Jessie Pope was an English poet, writer and journalist. Pope was at the forefront of patriotic motivational poetry during the First World War and received criticism from other war poets like ...

The Pope Hotel was located in the 1300 block of French Street. It was owned and operated by Jessie Pope and her husband William. Jessie went on to found Erie’s chapter of the NAACP.

Jessie Pope had largely passed into obscurity by the time she died in 1941, with another world war raging. Her books of war poems were not reprinted. It was another 40 years before she, ...