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.

[1] In early adulthood she visited London, various other parts of England, and Yverdon-les-Bains in Switzerland;[2] but for the majority of her working life as a writer had constant debilitating illness from asthma and rheumatism[3]—reports described her as "a confirmed invalid"—that left her unable to leave her bed for more than two to three hours a day.

[10] The reader for the publisher Kegan Paul, Alfred Chenevix Trench, initially thought The Silence of Dean Maitland "a little too unorthodox" for his religious clientele, but on the second reading decided it was "too good to refuse".

[12] The Silence of Dean Maitland and a number of Mary Tuttiett's other novels are set in a fictionalised Isle of Wight, in which Newport, Calbourne, Swainstone, Brading and Arreton appear as "Oldport", "Malbourne", "Swaynestone", "Barling" and "Arden".

[7] The Silence of Dean Maitland became a successful stage play,[6] and was filmed three times: in 1914 by Raymond Longford,[13] in 1915 (under the title Sealed Lips) by John Ince,[14] and in 1934 in Australia by Ken G.