Cherry Ripe is a romance novel by the British writer Ellen Buckingham Mathews under her pen name of Helen Mathers, 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.Low, p. 347
References
Bibliography Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.