The Silence of Dean Maitland is an 1886 novel by Maxwell Gray (the pen name of Mary Gleed Tuttiett). Set in a fictionalized Isle of Wight, particularly around Calbourne, it concerns an ambitious clergyman who accidentally kills the father of a young woman he has made pregnant, then allows his best friend to be wrongly convicted for the crime.[1] A popular bestseller, it was filmed in 1914, in 1915 (under the title Sealed Lips),[2] and in 1934.
| Author | Maxwell Gray |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | romantic melodrama |
| Publisher | Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, London |
Publication date | October 1886 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback, 3 volumes) |
| Preceded by | The Broken Tryst |
| Followed by | The Reproach of Annesley |
References edit
- ^ Sutherland, John (1990). The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804718423.
- ^ IMDb #0006014
External links edit
- The Silence of Dean Maitland, Internet Archive.
- The World's Greatest Books, Volume 5, Project Gutenberg, which leads with an extended synopsis by Maxwell Gray.
- The Silence of Dean Matiland play at AustLit
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