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Adaptations
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form
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It's Never Too Late To Mend
( 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
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Written several years after Reade's play Gold, this novel incorporates elements of the drama.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Jacky-Kalingaloonga: Aboriginality, Audience Reception, and Charles Reade's 'It Is Never Too Late To Mend' (1865)
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
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
1984
single work
criticism
correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 11 no. 3 1984; (p. 400-404) -
Novels of 'The System'
1957
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 18 no. 4 1957; (p. 206-211)
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Jacky-Kalingaloonga: Aboriginality, Audience Reception, and Charles Reade's 'It Is Never Too Late To Mend' (1865)
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
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'
1957
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 18 no. 4 1957; (p. 206-211) -
Charles Reade, Wilkie Collins, and Marcus Clarke
1984
single work
criticism
correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 11 no. 3 1984; (p. 400-404)
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