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Maxwell Gray
1846–1923
Remembered for the Victorian bestseller The Silence of Dean Maitland, this English novelist and poet wrote under a pen name that quickly became better known than her own. Her fiction often mixes moral pressure, emotional conflict, and sharp social observation.
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The suspicions of Ermengarde
by Maxwell Gray
About the author
Mary Gleed Tuttiett (December 11, 1846 – September 21, 1923) wrote as Maxwell Gray. She was an English novelist and poet, born at Newport on the Isle of Wight, and she became best known for The Silence of Dean Maitland, published in 1886.
Before her breakthrough as a novelist, she contributed essays, poems, articles, and short stories to periodicals. Her success with The Silence of Dean Maitland made Maxwell Gray a widely recognized literary name, and she went on to publish a substantial body of fiction.
Today, she is chiefly remembered as a late-Victorian popular writer whose work brought together sensation, conscience, and domestic drama. The lasting visibility of her novels in archives and reprints reflects how strongly that most famous book continued to resonate with readers.