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This dark night Emily Brontë, a life

"Emily Brontë was only twenty-seven-years old when she started work on one of the most important novels in the English language. In two years, she completed Wuthering Heights in 1847, while the world took almost a hundred years to catch up. It has taken the world even longer to know Brontë-enigmat...

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Main Author: Lutz, Deborah (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2026.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Brontë, Emily, > 1818-1848.
Women novelists, English > 19th century.
Women poets, English > 19th century.
Biographies.
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Summary:"Emily Brontë was only twenty-seven-years old when she started work on one of the most important novels in the English language. In two years, she completed Wuthering Heights in 1847, while the world took almost a hundred years to catch up. It has taken the world even longer to know Brontë-enigmatic, less initially renowned than sister Charlotte of JANE EYRE fame, and with a legacy marred by the loss (and likely destruction) of almost all her personal papers. THIS DARK NIGHT is a portrait of Emily Brontë, her writing sisters, and the material and cultural world they lived in, tracing Brontë's passions from the incomparable moors outside her home to the storm, strife, and longing that populates her poetry and novel. Deborah Lutz reconstructs the texture of Emily's days as masterful writer and woman tending to a household in Victorian England. She places Brontë in the history of modern thought and emerges with a mythic figure: consummate artist, deeply idiosyncratic person, and creator of a cherished and extraordinarily influential work"-- Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:xvi, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781324037118
1324037113
Author Notes:Deborah Lutz is the author of six books, including This Dark Night: Emily Brontë, A Life and The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects , which was shortlisted for the PEN/Weld Award for Biography. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library, and has twice been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships. She teaches Victorian literature and culture at Pennsylvania State University as the George and Barbara Kelly Professor in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature. Past honors include fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times , Cabinet Magazine , and many other venues, and she is the editor of two Norton Critical Editions-- Jane Eyre and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde .

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