Tennyson and 'Maxwell Gray.'
•■4 The clever lady novelist, whose nom de plume is * Maxwell Gray,’ is a Miss Uttiet, tho only daughter of a doctor of Newport, Isle of Wight. She is no longer in her first youth, and has to contend with terribly bad health, being, in fact, a confirmed invalid. What follows is worth repeating, even if to some it should be ancient history. When * The Silence of Dean Maitland ’ came out, Tennyson read the book and was deeply Interested in it. So highly, indeed, did he think of the authoress, that he wrote and invited her to pay him a visit at Freshwater, where he was then staying. Miss Uttiet was constrained to decline the invitation on the score of health. But the Laureate was
not to be denied. As the mountain would I not go to Mahomet, the prophet 'had to go | to the mountain ;* in other words, Lord Tennyson drove over from Freshwater on purpose to make the acquaintance of * Maxwell Gray.’
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 867, 12 October 1888, Page 5
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