Language English Publication date October 1886 Originally published October 1886 Country United Kingdom | Genre romantic melodrama Preceded by The Broken Tryst | |
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Publisher Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, London Media type Print (Hardback, 3 volumes) Adaptations The Silence of Dean Maitland (1914) Similar The Silence of Dean Mai, In the Heart of the Storm: A, Lays of the Dragon Slayer | ||
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. A popular bestseller, it was filmed in 1914, in 1915 (under the title Sealed Lips), and in 1934.
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