Cherry Ripe (novel)

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Cherry Ripe
Author Ellen Buckingham Mathews
LanguageEnglish
GenreRomance
Melodrama
Publication date
1878
Publication place United Kingdom
Media typePrint

Cherry Ripe is a romance novel by the British writer Ellen Buckingham Mathews under her pen name of Helen Mathers, which was first published in 1878. Like much of her other work it is a sentimental rural romance, with shades of melodrama.

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Film adaptation

In 1921, the book was turned into a silent film Cherry Ripe directed by Kenelm Foss and starring Mary Odette. [1]

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References

  1. Low, p. 347

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