y separately published work icon It is Never Too Late to Mend : A Matter-of-Fact Romance single work   novel   romance  
Issue Details: First known date: 1856... 1856 It is Never Too Late to Mend : A Matter-of-Fact Romance
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon It's Never Too Late To Mend W. J. Lincoln , ( dir. W. J. Lincoln ) Australia : J. and N. Tait , 1911 6692517 1911 single work film/TV

A feature length film based on a stage adaptation of popular novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade about convict Australia. The novel has been credited with exposing cruelties in the Australian prison system and having helped end the convict system.

Notes

  • Written several years after Reade's play Gold, this novel incorporates elements of the drama.

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Related Works

y separately published work icon Gold : A Drama in Five Acts Charles Reade , 1853 London : John Dicks , 1853 Z1134282 1853 single work drama romance
It's Never Too Late to Mend : Drama in Four Acts Charles Reade , London : 1890 6952784 1890 single work drama
— Appears in: Plays 1986;
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Works about this Work

Jacky-Kalingaloonga: Aboriginality, Audience Reception, and Charles Reade's 'It Is Never Too Late To Mend' (1865) Ian Henderson , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Theatre Research International , vol. 29 no. 2 2004; (p. 95-110)
Aussie Bards and Pom Reviewers : English Reviewers and Australian Writers in the Nineteenth Century Barry Argyle , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Aspects of Australian Fiction : Essays Presented to John Colmer, Professor Emeritus of English, The University of Adelaide 1990; (p. 1-16)
Charles Reade, Wilkie Collins, and Marcus Clarke P. D. Edwards , 1984 single work criticism correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 11 no. 3 1984; (p. 400-404)
Novels of 'The System' Clive Hamer , 1957 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 18 no. 4 1957; (p. 206-211)
Jacky-Kalingaloonga: Aboriginality, Audience Reception, and Charles Reade's 'It Is Never Too Late To Mend' (1865) Ian Henderson , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Theatre Research International , vol. 29 no. 2 2004; (p. 95-110)
Aussie Bards and Pom Reviewers : English Reviewers and Australian Writers in the Nineteenth Century Barry Argyle , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Aspects of Australian Fiction : Essays Presented to John Colmer, Professor Emeritus of English, The University of Adelaide 1990; (p. 1-16)
Novels of 'The System' Clive Hamer , 1957 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 18 no. 4 1957; (p. 206-211)
Charles Reade, Wilkie Collins, and Marcus Clarke P. D. Edwards , 1984 single work criticism correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 11 no. 3 1984; (p. 400-404)
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