This Dark Night
The Life of Emily Brontë: ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S ‘BEST BOOKS TO DIP INTO THIS SUMMER’
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This Dark Night
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Deborah Lutz
The first comprehensive biography of Emily Brontë in over two decades.
Emily Jane Brontë was just 27 when she started writing the wayward and electric novel Wuthering Heights. Three years later, she was dead. Out of step with her own time and remembered as the strangest of the Brontë sisters, there's much that we don't know about her — most of her papers were destroyed after her death. But as Deborah Lutz explores in this, one of the first biographies of Emily in 20 years, the writing that has survived seethes with storm and strife and with the beautifully desolate landscape of Yorkshire.
Drawing on a vast quantity of unexplored archival materials, Deborah reconstructs the texture of Emily Brontë's days, bringing us closer to one of the greatest and fiercest writers we have, by showing us her creative process and her confidence in her strange art.
This book has much to reveal to readers of Wuthering Heights, as we accompany Emily around the wild moorlands she loved so much. Also threaded through with the contemporary politics and events of the era (from the early labour movements of the Chartists and reformists, to the slave uprisings in the colonies), and authors and locals that Emily read about or knew (from proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to the masculine lesbian Anne Lister).
Featuring illuminating readings of her poems, This Dark Night takes us inside the world of Emily's irrepressible spirit and wild imagination.
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Emerald Fennell ’s hallucinatory adaptation of Wuthering Heights invited us to consider Emily Brontë in one light; Lutz’s painstaking account shows her in quite another. Far from the eccentric, isolated genius , Lutz’s Brontë is grounded in her material reality, from everyday household tasks to illness and grief.
It says much for Lutz’s skills as a writer that she succeeds in creating such a seamless and compelling narrative out of her materials. Her insight and sensitivity as a critic, as well her deep knowledge of the sources, allow her to open up the inner life of her famously reclusive subject. The result is a convincing portrait and an impressive achievement. (Lucasta Miller)
Refreshing… [Lutz] is excellent on the intimacy of Emily’s writing about grief… this biography is a wonderful book.
Discerning
Engaging new biography…Lutz unspools this short, seemingly uneventful life with sympathy, lyricism and economy — as well as humor.
A new, quietly punchy biography
A dazzling, rigorously researched biography of Emily Brontë. Lutz paints a vivid portrait of a singular, peculiar writer. Readers will be rapt.
Deborah Lutz reveals Emily Brontë to us anew in this fresh, compelling, and perfectly paced jewel of a biography. Lutz dispenses with the Brontë myth and gives us a far more moving and accurate portrait of a bold, innovative, emotionally attuned writer deeply rooted in her imagination, family, landscape, and community. This Dark Night is a triumph.
A lively, comprehensive, and thoroughly researched biography… Lutz paints a vivid portrait of the surroundings, people and politics… This Dark Night, underpinned by wide-ranging sources and expert analysis, is a discerning insight into the woman behind a tale which has captivated generations.
Lutz has a nice, if slightly lush turn of phrase…and is particularly good on weather, landscape and conjuring up sensory experiences.
In This Dark Night, Lutz paints Emily Bronte's life with exquisite detail. The completeness of this biography means we are given as much a picture of the material lives of Emily as we are her intellectual life, so one can feel it all: her chilblains, her handwriting cramped onto folded manuscripts, her dog, her sisters and her beloved moors. Everything comes alive just as it might in a Bronte novel. I find myself returning to the world of the Parsonage, to Emily's Gothic playground, again and again through this book.
[Lutz] gives us lavish servings of literary aesthetics. By the end, the reader understands much of what went into Brontë’s making, and leaves feeling grateful, buffeted and a little awestruck by the intense, self-contained, short-lived author of one of the world’s most esteemed novels.
Absorbing…[Lutz] is terrific on the details of Emily’s life.
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