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It Is Never Too Late To Mend (novel)
''It Is Never Too Late to Mend'' (sometimes written as ''It's Never Too Late to Mend'') is an 1856 novel by the British writer Charles Reade. It was later turned into a play. A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires to have her lover framed and sent to jail. The book is mentioned in Jack Black's 1926 book '' You Can't Win'' as an inspiration to Black while in prison. The Ven. George Hans Hamilton (21 Jan 1823 to 23 Sept 1905) was Chaplain of Durham Jail, and his fame concerning prison reform led to his being used as the original of the Chaplain in this book. Adaptations The play version was presented in February 1865 at The Theatre, Leeds to great acclaim.Leodis, Discovering Leeds: The Theatre Retr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Reade
Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was a British novelist and dramatist, best known for '' The Cloister and the Hearth''. Life Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring, and had at least four brothers. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, taking his B.A. in 1835, and became a fellow of his college. He was subsequently dean of arts and vice-president, taking his degree of D.C.L. in 1847. His name was entered at Lincoln's Inn in 1836; he was elected Vinerian Fellow in 1842, and was called to the bar in 1843.Edwards, P.D. "Charles Reade." ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.'' He kept his fellowship at Magdalen all his life but, after taking his degree, he spent most of his time in London. William Winwood Reade, the influential historian, was his nephew. Writings Reade began his literary career as a dramatist, and he chose to have "dramatist" stand first in the list of his occupations on his tombstone. As an auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squire
In the Middle Ages, a squire was the shield- or armour-bearer of a knight. Use of the term evolved over time. Initially, a squire served as a knight's apprentice. Later, a village leader or a lord of the manor might come to be known as a "squire", and still later, the term was applied to members of the landed gentry. In contemporary American usage, "squire" is the title given to justices of the peace or similar local dignitaries. ''Squire'' is a shortened version of the word ''esquire'', from the Old French (modern French ), itself derived from the Late Latin ("shield bearer"), in medieval or Old English a ''scutifer''. The Classical Latin equivalent was ("arms bearer"). Knights in training The most common definition of ''squire'' refers to the Middle Ages. A squire was typically a young boy, training to become a knight. A boy became a page at the age of 7 then a squire at age 14. Squires were the second step to becoming a knight, after having served as a page. Boys s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Black (author)
Jack Black (1871–1932) was a hobo and professional burglar. Born in 1871 in New Westminster, British Columbia, he was raised from infancy in the U.S. state of Missouri in the town of Maysville and eventually Kansas City. He wrote '' You Can't Win'' (Macmillan, 1926), a memoir or sketched autobiography describing his days on the road and life as an outlaw. Black's book was written as an anti-crime book urging criminals to go straight, but it is also his statement of belief in the futility of prisons and the criminal justice system, hence the title of the book. Jack Black was writing from experience, having spent thirty years (fifteen of which were spent in various prisons) as a traveling criminal and offers tales of being a cross-country stick-up man, home burglar, petty thief, and opium fiend. He gained fame as a prison reformer, writer and playwright. He disappeared in 1932 in a likely suicide. Life Jack Black is an essentially anonymous figure; even his actual name is unce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Can't Win (book)
''You Can't Win'' is an autobiography by burglar and hobo Jack Black, written in the early to mid-1920s and first published in 1926. It describes Black's life on the road, in prison and his various criminal capers in the American and Canadian west from the late 1880s to early 20th century. The book was a major influence upon William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers. Summary The book tells of Black's experiences in the hobo underworld, freight-hopping around the western United States and Canada, with the majority of incidents taking place from the late 1880s to around 1910. He tells of becoming a thief, burglar, and member of the yegg (safe-cracking) subculture, exploring the topics of crime, criminal justice, vice, addictions, penology, and human folly from various viewpoints, from observer to consumer to supplier, and from victim to perpetrator. Publication ''You Can't Win'' originally appeared in serial format in the ''San Francisco Call-Bulletin'' under the editorship of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hans Hamilton
George Hans Hamilton was Archdeacon of Lindisfarne from 1865 until 1882, when he became Archdeacon of Northumberland. He was also a Canon of Durham. Hamilton was the third son of Henry Hamilton, Justice of the Peace, JP of Tullylish and grandson of Hugh Hamilton (bishop), Hugh Hamilton, Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh from 1795 to 1799; and then of Bishop of Ossory, Ossory until 1805. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1847. After a Curate, curacy in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, Sunderland he became Chaplain of HM Prison Durham, Durham Prison then Vicar of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Berwick. In 1884 he became Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Durham. Hamilton married (first) "Bella Best", Arabella Sarah Best, whose father John Best (1791–1825) came from Worcester. He was an accountant with the East India Company in Bombay, and his wife Arabella née Robinson (1795–1855) and children seem to have travelled much between there and Sunderla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Is Never Too Late To Mend - Weir Collection
It or IT may refer to: * It (pronoun), in English * Information technology Arts and media Film and television * ''It'' (1927 film), a film starring Clara Bow * ''It! The Terror from Beyond Space'', a 1958 science fiction film * ''It!'' (1967 film), a film starring Roddy McDowell * ''It'' (1989 film), a Soviet comedy film directed by Sergei Ovcharov * ''It'' (miniseries), a 1990 television miniseries film based on Stephen King's novel * ''Incredible Tales'', simply known as ''I.T.'', a Singaporean horror anthology TV series * ''I.T.'' (film), a 2016 film starring Pierce Brosnan * ''It'' (2017 film), a film adaptation of Stephen King's novel **''It Chapter Two'' (2019), the direct sequel to the 2017 film * ''It'' (Phish video), a 2004 DVD set about the Phish festival Characters * It (character), the title character from Stephen King's novel ''It'' (also known as Pennywise) * It! The Living Colossus, a comic book character * IT, a character in the novel ''A Wrinkle in Time'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Theatre, Leeds
The Theatre in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, was a theatre for summer shows, built in 1771 by Tate Wilkinson and redeveloped in 1867. Mrs Siddons and Ching Lau Lauro appeared here in 1786 and 1834 respectively. It was the only drama theatre in Leeds until 1864, after which business was challenged by competition. It became shabby and was partially rebuilt in 1867 to create the smarter Royal Theatre, which was to burn down in 1875. No theatre was built again on this site, and its surviving Victorian successors are the Leeds City Varieties of 1865 and the Grand Theatre of 1878. Building and location The Theatre of 1771 was a fairly basic brick building of . It was on the east side of Meadow Lane, Hunslet, Leeds, near Leeds Bridge. In his ''Memoirs'' of 1790, Tate Wilkinson described it as "quite a palace."''Leeds Times'' 28 September 1867: "Local news" However '' The Leeds Guide'' of 1806 despaired of it: "Its form inconvenient, and utterly unworthy of the populous and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Is Never Too Late To Mend (1911 Film)
''It Is Never Too Late to Mend'' is an Australian feature-length silent film written and directed by W. J. Lincoln. It was based on a stage adaptation of the popular 1865 novel '' It Is Never Too Late to Mend: A Matter-of-Fact Romance'' by Charles Reade about the corrupt penal system in Australia. It was called "certainly one of the best pictures ever taken in Australia." The novel has been credited with exposing cruelties in the Australian prison system and having helped end the convict system. It is considered a lost film. It was filmed again in 1913 and in 1937 (the latter film being the definitive version starring Tod Slaughter as the evil squire). The film was made by the Tait family, who also made the first Australian feature film, ''The Story of the Kelly Gang''. The Taits went on to make several more films with Lincoln, including ''The Mystery of a Hansom Cab'' (1911), ''The Luck of Roaring Camp'' (1911), '' Called Back'' (1911), ''The Lost Chord'' (May 1911), '' The Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Is Never Too Late To Mend (1913 Film)
''It Is Never Too Late to Mend'' is a 1913 American silent film version of the 1856 novel by Charles Reade. The film was released by the Edison Company The Edison Manufacturing Company, originally registered as the United Edison Manufacturing Company and often known as simply the Edison Company, was organized by inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison and incorporated in New York City in May 188 .... References External links * 1913 films Films based on British novels 1913 short films 1913 drama films American silent short films American black-and-white films Silent American drama films 1910s American films {{1910s-short-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Never Too Late To Mend (1922 Film)
''It's Never Too Late to Mend'' (alternatively ''Never Too Late to Mend''; U.S. release title ''Never Too Late'') is a 1937 British melodrama film directed by David MacDonald and starring Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey and Marjorie Taylor. The plot involves a villainous squire and justice of the peace who conspires to have his rival arrested on false charges. It is based on the 1856 novel '' It Is Never Too Late to Mend'' by Charles Reade. The film was produced at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie for release by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was popular enough to be rereleased in 1942. The novel had been adapted as a 1922 British silent film starring Russell Thorndike as Squire Meadows. Cast * Tod Slaughter as Squire Meadows * Jack Livesey as Tom Robinson * Marjorie Taylor as Susan Merton * Ian Colin as George Fielding * Laurence Hanray as Lawyer Crawley * D. J. Williams as Farmer Merton * Roy Russell as Rev. Mr. Eden * John Singer as Josephs * Leonard Sharp as Bradshaw (u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Never Too Late To Mend
''It's Never Too Late to Mend'' (alternatively just ''Never Too Late to Mend''; US release title ''Never Too Late'') is a 1937 British melodrama film directed by David MacDonald and starring Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey and Marjorie Taylor. In the film, a villainous squire and Justice of the Peace conspires to have his rival in love arrested on false charges. It is based on the 1856 novel '' It Is Never Too Late to Mend'' by Charles Reade. The film was made at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie for release by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was popular enough to be re-released in 1942. The novel was adapted once before, as a British silent film in 1922, starring Russell Thorndike as Squire Meadows. Plot summary Cast * Tod Slaughter as Squire John Meadows * Jack Livesey as Tom Robinson * Marjorie Taylor as Susan Merton * Ian Colin as George Fielding * Laurence Hanray as Lawyer Crawley * D.J. Williams as Farmer Merton * Roy Russell as Reverend Mr. Eden * John Singer as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tod Slaughter
Norman Carter Slaughter (19 March 1885 – 19 February 1956), also known as Tod Slaughter, was an English actor, best known for playing over-the-top maniacs in macabre film adaptations of Victorian melodramas. Early life Slaughter was born on 19 March 1885 in Gosforth and attended the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne. The eldest surviving son of 12 children, he made his way onto the stage in 1905 at West Hartlepool. In 1913, he became a lessee of the Hippodrome theatres in the Richmond and Croydon areas of London. After a brief interruption to serve in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I, he returned to the stage. Career Early career During Slaughter's early career, his stage name was "N. Carter Slaughter" and he primarily played the conventional leading man or character roles. After the war, he ran the Theatre Royal, Chatham before taking over the Elephant and Castle Theatre in London for a memorable few years from 1924 onwards that have since passed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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