Cherry Ripe (novel)
# Cherry Ripe (novel)

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

## Film adaptation

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

