The Evolution of Katherine

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The Evolution of Katherine is a 1914 play by the British writer E. Temple Thurston. In 1916 it was adapted into a film Driven directed by Maurice Elvey. It is one of a number of Thurston's works to be turned into films. [1] The play is sometimes itself alternatively known as Driven.

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