Maxwell Gray

The silence of Dean Maitland 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. Tuttiett was born and brought up in Newport, Isle of Wight, the daughter of the surgeon Frank Bampfylde Tuttiett and his wife Elizabeth née Gleed. Largely self-educated, in early adulthood she visited London, various other parts of England, and Yverdon-les-Bains in Switzerland;but for the majority of her working life as a writer suffered constant debilitating illness from asthma and rheumatism reports described her as "a confirmed invalid"-that left her unable to leave her bed for more than two to three hours a day. She wrote lying on a sofa