Author:Charles Reade

Charles Reade
(1814–1884)

Charles Reade

Works

• The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) (external scan)
  • An early and different version of The Cloister and the Hearth was serialized in Once a Week in 1859 under the title "A Good Fight."
• Griffith Gaunt (1866)
• Foul Play with Dion Boucicault (1869)
• Masks and Faces (1852) play
• Peg Woffington, 1857 (1853) (adapted from Masks and Faces)
• Christie Johnstone (1853)
• The Courier of Lyons (1854) (also known as The Lyons Mail)
• It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1856)
• Autobiography of a Thief (1858)
• Jack of All Trades (1858) (about the elephant Mademoiselle D'Jeck)
• Love Me Little, Love Me Long (1859)
• Hard Cash (1863)
• Put Yourself in His Place (1870)
• A Terrible Temptation (1871)
• Shilly-Shally (1872). Unauthorized stage adaptation of Anthony Trollope's Ralph the Heir
• A Simpleton (1873)
• The Wandering Heir (1873)
• A Woman Hater (1877)
• A Perilous Secret (1884)
• Singleheart and Doubleface (1884)
• He would be a Gentleman

Works about Reade

• "Reade, Charles," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Charles Reade" in The Atlantic Monthly, 14 (82) (August, 1864)
• "Charles Reade," in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers (1873)
• "Reade, Charles," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Reade, Charles," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Reade, Charles," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Charles Reade" by George Orwell (1940)

On his works

• "Put Yourself in His Place," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Put Yourself in His Place," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)