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
AuthorMaxwell Gray
LanguageEnglish
Genreromantic melodrama
PublisherKegan Paul, Trench & Co, London
Publication date
October 1886
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
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.

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