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A Wren-like Note: Whale of a chine
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The life and works of Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett). 08 April, 2015. Whale of a chine. In Maxwell Gray's 1913 novel Something Afar. Published in the USA as The Desire of the Moth. The author gets in a reference to her native Isle of Wight and a description (fancifully embroidered by Blanche, the protagonist's wife) of the celebrated whale skeleton at Blackgang Chine. A honeymoon inside a whale, Signora? The baroness asked, mystified. There was melon at dessert that very evening.". We visited the Chi...
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A Wren-like Note: Reading
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The life and works of Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett). About Maxwell Gray, etc. The Bookman, March 1896. Page 7 (linked) has a photograph and short literary biography of Maxwell Gray. For October 1893 has an extended feature on Maxwell Gray. A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect, and of Provincialisms Used in the Island. William Henry Long, pub. Reeves, 1886). I strongly suspect that Maxwell Gray used it as a reference for the dialect in Ribstone Pippins. Isle of Wight Observer. Poets of the Wight.
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A Wren-like Note: Works
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The life and works of Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett). A flirtatious young woman goads a miller's son into enlisting in the army; she is subsequently torn between love for him and for his older commanding officer who saved his life in India (British Library online access BLL01014812091. Click "I want this" for PDF link). The Silence of Dean Maitland. The Reproach of Annesley. Westminster chimes and other poems. 1890, Hathi Trust: Catalog Record 31924013566660. In the Heart of the Storm. A poor and ext...
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A Wren-like Note: Life
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The life and works of Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett). Maxwell Gray: a brief biography. In 1844, Frank married Elizabeth (called Eliza) Trickett Gleed, a young woman from a long-established Carisbrooke family from Priory Farm, just to the north of Carisbrooke Church. Dr Tuttiett was by all accounts a respected and popular physician, but as a “club doctor” not a very affluent one. She gives a very straightforward picture:. In contrast, a biographical sketch in the October 1892 Great Thoughts. In her ea...
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A Wren-like Note: News
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The life and works of Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett). Site news: I just updated the Works. Page with links to a number of online texts newly available via the Hathi Trust. This means that all of MG's novels and anthologies are now findable online, except her final book, the 1923 A Bit of Blue Stone, and other stories. Minor site news: Kyra van Rijzingen kindly sent me a reliable citation for the Maxwell Gray interview. Reproduced here: Annie S. Swan's Magazine - The Woman at Home. You have to upload ...
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A Wren-like Note: Gallery
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The life and works of Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett). These are illustrations by Frederick Hamilton Jackson (1848-1923) scanned from the 1897 Kegan Paul, Trench and Trübner illustrated edition of The Silence of Dean Maitland. Many of the drawings are from still-identifiable places - see Dean Maitland locations. Alma, looking down to 'Chalkburne' (Carisbrooke). Alma and Maitland, the guy who'll get her pregnant. Mark Anthony, the cat, gets cute. OMG - Maitland feels guilty. The guilty Maitland swoons.
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A Wren-like Note: The Ocean Child: MG inspiration?
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The life and works of Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett). 07 April, 2015. The Ocean Child: MG inspiration? Have I caught Maxwell Gray in unconscious plagiarism? 1879) is the first and little-known Maxwell Gray novel, published seven years before The Silence of Dean Maitland. Made her name as an author. It's a romance set largely in Brightdale, a thinly-disguised Brighstone. I've just been reading The Ocean Child: Or, Showers and Sunshine. A Tale of Girlhood. The Illustrated London News. Whale of a chine.
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A Wren-like Note: May 2015
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The life and works of Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett). 24 May, 2015. A Wren-like Note: the life and works of Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett). Is the first full-length biography of a once-celebrated author. Not much more than a century ago, these lines were iconic . The Silence of Dean Maitland. Maxwell Gray, 1886. As the opening of one of the more sensational novels of the late 19th century. 23 May, 2015. Isle of Wight index. The new Isle of Wight. Tab in the header to access the index. A new biogr...
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A Wren-like Note: A Wren-like Note: important update
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The life and works of Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett). 10 June, 2015. A Wren-like Note: important update. I've released my book A Wren-like Note: the life and works of Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett). On a Creative Commons license, as an electronic version that allows its sharing and copying, without modification and retaining attribution to me as author. The license I chose is Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) which is summarised here. Maxwell Gray was the...
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A Wren-like Note: June 2015
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The life and works of Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett). 10 June, 2015. A Wren-like Note: important update. Ive released my book A Wren-like Note: the life and works of Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett). On a Creative Commons license, as an electronic version that allows its sharing and copying, without modification and retaining attribution to me as author. 09 June, 2015. Maxwell Gray loose ends. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Wren-like Note: important update. Maxwell Gray loose ends. She went on to wr...
