The Silence of Dean Maitland

This article is about the novel. For other uses, see The Silence of Dean Maitland (disambiguation).

The Silence of Dean Maitland

Title page for The Silence of Dean Maitland (1886)
Author	Maxwell Gray
Language	English
Genre	romantic melodrama
Publisher	Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, London
Publication date	October 1886
Publication place	United Kingdom
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. ^[3]

References

1. Sutherland, John (1990). The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. ISBN   0804718423.
2. IMDb #0006014
3. Vagg, Stephen (18 September 2025). "Forgotten Australian Films: The Silence of Dean Maitland". Filmink. Retrieved 18 September 2025.

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 ^{[ dead link ]} at AustLit