''The Silence of Dean Maitland'' is an 1886 novel by

Maxwell Gray 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''. Life Tuttiett was born and brought up in ...

(the pen name of Mary Gleed Tuttiett). Set in a fictionalized

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, particularly around

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, 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

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, in 1915 (under the title ''Sealed Lips''),IMDb #0006014
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References

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
at

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