The Silence of Dean Maitland

The Silence of Dean Maitland
AuthorMaxwell Gray
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genreromantic melodrama
PublisherKegan Paul, Trench & Co, London
Publication date
October 1886
Media typePrint (Hardback, 3 volumes)
Preceded byThe Broken Tryst 
Followed byThe Reproach of Annesley 

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.

References

  1. ^ Sutherland, John (1990). The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804718423.
  2. ^ IMDb #0006014

External links

  • 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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