I just found a very inexpensive copy of the Kegan Paul, Trench & Trübner illustrated edition - 1897, I think - of Maxwell Gray's
The Silence of Dean Maitland, and thought the illustrations, by Frederick Hamilton Jackson (1848-1923), might be of interest/amusement. I've no doubt of FH Jackson's credentials and general competence as an artist (
see Wikipedia) but some of these illustrations are distinctly strange in proportions and style. He has done his homework, however, and some of the locations are identifiable. The Internet Archive has a number of
books by him. Also out of interest - an example of the general Victorian small world - Jackson married a Fanny Boole, a niece of the mathematician
George Boole.
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title page |
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part 1 |
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Alma, looking down to 'Chalkburne' (Carisbrooke) |
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Alma and Maitland, the guy who'll get her pregnant |
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Mark Anthony, the cat, gets cute |
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Him again |
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Lilian, the protagonist's sister, does a bit of horse-whispering |
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Cyril Maitland preaches |
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Lilian and Everard, who'll take the rap for Maitland's crime |
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OMG - Maitland feels guilty |
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At the pub - Ben Lee's murder is reported |
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The guilty Maitland swoons |
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Villagers at the pub |
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A very girly Maitland christens his own son |
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part 2 |
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Alma and her baby |
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Ingram tries it on with Lilian, while her boyfriend is in prison |
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Everard escapes Portsmouth |
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Everard escaped |
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probably Winkle Street, Calbourne |
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part 3 |
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Everard meets young Everard |
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Maitland is confronted by his illegitimate son |
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Maitland (left) is freaked to see Everard (right) |
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Maitland, knowing the game's up, takes leave of his family |
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Lilian, the falsely-accused Everard's girlfriend |
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Lilian and Everard dig the garden |
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Everard contemplates the dead Maitland |
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'Granfer' |
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Happy ending |
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The End |
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