| The Silence of Dean Maitland | |
| Author: | Maxwell Gray |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | romantic melodrama |
| Publisher: | Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, London |
| Release Date: | October 1886 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback, 3 volumes) |
| Preceded By: | The Broken Tryst |
| Followed By: | The 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.