I’m reading ‘Uncle Silas’, a Gothic novel by J S Le Fanu. I find that

I’m reading ‘Uncle Silas’, a Gothic novel by J S Le Fanu. I find that the family in the story have the surname of 'Ruthyn’. Le Fanu was a Dublin man but his niece Rhoda Broughton, a lesser-known novelist, was born in Denbigh. I wonder whether Le Fanu ever visited his Denbighshire relations and borrowed the name of a town he may have visited during his stay? Ruthin (Welsh spelling, Rhuthun) is five or six miles away from my home in Flintshire. -- source link

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