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Maxwell Gray, The Silence of Dean Maitland
First scholarly edition of a neglected, hugely popular best-sellerKey FeaturesFirst scholarly edition of forgotten late Victorian classic of rural life and sensation fictionComprehensive selection of contemporary reviews and commentariesCarefully contextualized introduction to the novel and its authorMaxwell Gray tells the sensational story of an ambitious clergyman, who accidentally kills the father of a woman he has made pregnant, and then allows his closest friend to be convicted of the murder. The best-seller was subsequently filmed three times (1914, 1915, 1934) and presents fascinating insights into the forgotten world of late Victorian rural life. Including a carefully contextualised introduction to the novel and its author, this edition also provides a comprehensive selection of contemporary reviews and commentaries.
The Silence of Dean Maitland
Mary Gleed Tuttiett (11 December 1846 - 21 September 1923), better known by the pen name Maxwell Gray, was an English novelist and poet best known for her 1886 novel The Silence of Dean Maitland. Tuttiett was born and brought up in Newport, Isle of Wight, the daughter of the surgeon Frank Bampfylde Tuttiett and his wife Elizabeth nee Gleed. Largely self-educated, in early adulthood she visited London, various other parts of England, and Yverdon-les-Bains in Switzerland;but for the majority of her working life as a writer suffered constant debilitating illness from asthma and rheumatism reports described her as "a confirmed invalid"-that left her unable to leave her bed for more than two to three hours a day. She wrote lying on a sofa
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