The Silence of Dean Maitland

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The Silence of Dean Maitland
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

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.

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References

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