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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 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;〔Maxwell Gray, Catherine Jane Hamilton, 1894, ''The Woman at Home'', Warwick Magazine Co〕 but for the majority of her working life as a writer suffered constant debilitating illness from asthma and rheumatism 〔''The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction'', Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell, David Trotter, OUP Oxford, 2002〕—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.〔''Book News'', National Book League, 134, vol 12, October 1893〕 For much of her life she lived and worked confined to her home in Newport, first at Pyle Street (where works up to ''The Last Sentence'' were written 〔) then at Castle Road,〔 only making occasional trips out by carriage or bath-chair.〔 On one such trip she visited the American writer Wolcott Balestier, whose sister married Rudyard Kipling, when he and his family were staying at Blackgang.〔 Her 1893 novel ''The Last Sentence'' was dedicated to Balestier after his early death. She was strongly interested in women's rights, being one of a number of writers who petitioned in support of the Women's Suffrage Bill,〔Advertisement, ''The Times'', 15 June 1910〕 and such themes appear in a number of her novels.〔''The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction'', John Sutherland, Stanford University Press, 1990〕 After her father's death in 1895, she moved to West Richmond, remaining in London until her death in 1923, aged 76, at Ealing.〔Obituary, ''The Times'', 22 September 1923〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maxwell Gray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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