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4 unusual facts about Charles Reade


Ipsden

Their son Charles Reade, born at Ipsden in 1814, became a novelist and dramatist.

It's Never Too Late to Mend

It is based on the novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade.

Luigi Tarisio

The novelist Charles Reade, who knew Tarisio, wrote of him: 'The man's whole soul was in fiddles.

William Robert Davidge

In both New Zealand and Australia Davidge gave a series of public lectures with Charles Reade (1880 - 1933), another enthusiast of town planning, to promote the new planning paradigms.


Academic dishonesty

The writer Thomas Mallon noted that many scholars had found plagiarism in Literature (Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Reade being two notable examples) to often be perpetrated like kleptomania, a psychological disease associated with uncontrollable stealing even against the thief's the interests.

Edith Craig

In 1895 her performances in Pinero's Bygones and Charles Reade's The Lyons Mail respectively were praised by George Bernard Shaw and Eleonora Duse.

John Scott-Waring

She was the mother of two sons—Edward, a civil servant in Bengal; and Charles, who died young—and of two daughters, the elder of whom, Anna Maria, married John Reade of Ipsden House, Oxfordshire, was mother of Charles Reade and Edward Anderdon Reade, and died 9 August 1863, aged 90; the younger, Eliza Sophia, married the Rev. George Stanley Faber.


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