It Is Never Too Late to Mend (novel)

A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires to have her lover framed and sent to jail.

The book was partly based on an earlier play of Reade's Gold!.

The play version - adapted by George Conquest - was presented in February 1865 at The Theatre, Leeds to great acclaim.

[2] Alfred Dampier adapted the book into a play which was reported "to have made a good deal of money.

The novel was first published in a three-volume edition in London by Richard Bentley in 1856.