sentences:  It was first serialized in the "Dublin University Magazine" in 1864, under the title "Maud Ruthyn and Uncle Silas", and appeared in December of the same year as a three-volume novel from the London publisher Richard Bentley.Several changes were made from the serialization to the volume edition, such as resolving the inconsistencies of names.The novel is a first-person narrative told from the point of view of the adolescent girl Maud Ruthyn, an heiress living with her sombre, reclusive father Austin Ruthyn in their mansion at Knowl.