Like much of her other work it is a sentimental rural romance , with shades of melodrama .
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 writer 's other work Cherry Ripe is a sentimental rural romance novel , with shades of melodrama .
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 .