The Miser
Douglas William Jerrold's "John Overy or The Miser of Southwark Ferry", (1828) also brings in a daughter whom the miser attempts to sell off as a mistress to her disguised lover. Earlier Jerrold had written a one-act farce, "The Smoked Miser or The Benefit of Hanging" (1823), in which a miser tries to marry off his ward to advantage. Another farce produced in Canada, Major John Richardson's "The Miser Outwitted" (1841), had an Irish theme and dealt with a plot to trick a miser out of his money. The later Thomas Peckett Prest's "The Miser of Shoreditch or the Curse of Avarice" (1854) was based on a penny dreadful story by him; later he adapted it as a two-act romantic drama set in time of Henry VIII.