The Silence of Dean Maitland
1886 novel by Maxwell Gray
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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]
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| Author | Maxwell Gray |
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| 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 |
