{"product_id":"this-dark-night-emily-bronte-a-life","title":"This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, a Life","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDeborah Lutz's extraordinary \n\u003cem\u003eThis Dark Night\u003c\/em\u003e gives us a wilder and more wonder-filled Emily Brontë than any previous account of the famed sisterhood. Lutz knows her subject the way Brontë knew the Yorkshire moors, and her biography 'blazes forth, ' as an early reviewer wrote of \n\u003cem\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/em\u003e, with a rare brilliance derived from passionate and abiding engagement.--Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAssured and dogma-free... [Lutz] is terrific on the details of Emily's life.--John Mullan \"Literary Review\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEngaging, often elegant exploration... Lutz's reconstruction is remarkable indeed.--Matthew Dennison \"Country Life\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAtmospheric and empathetic... [ \n\u003cem\u003eThis Dark Night\u003c\/em\u003e] immerse[s] readers in Brontë's way of seeing the world.-- \"Kirkus Reviews\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIlluminating, comprehensive... [Lutz] does a grand job of bringing [Emily Brontë] to spirited life.--Caroline Sanderson \"The Bookseller\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDeborah Lutz reimagines what literary biography can do, interlacing details of life and text with a luminous prose that achieves a kind of resurrection. Haunting and gorgeous, like a windy moonlit moor.--Natalie Dykstra, author of Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDeborah 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. \n\u003cem\u003eThis Dark Night\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumph.--Heather Clark, Pulitzer Prize finalist author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThis Dark Night\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary act of biographical reanimation--not only of the strange, enigmatic Emily Brontë, who has never been more vividly rendered, but also of Brontë's physical world, the smells and textures and sounds of her beloved West Yorkshire moors. This gorgeous book hums with vitality.--Lance Richardson, author of True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDazzling... Lutz paints a vivid portrait of a singular, peculiar writer. Readers will be rapt.--Publishers Weekly, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRefreshing... Excellent... This biography is, also, a wonderful book for writers on how to write the stories only you can.--Samantha Ellis \"The Guardian\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGorgeously atmospheric and freshly illuminating... A uniquely enlightening portrait of an endlessly fascinating writer.--Donna Seaman, Booklist, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLyrical... Lutz shines light on the most enigmatic of the literary, secluded Brontë sisters.--Sadie Stein \"New York Times\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tQuietly punchy... We get a good sense of Emily Brontë's personality.--Francesca Steele \"i newspaper\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmily Brontë (1818-1848) was only twenty-seven-years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later in 1847, she completed \u003cem\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/em\u003e. It took the world almost a century to catch up to Brontë's masterpiece, and it has taken even longer to know Brontë--an elusive figure, with a ghostly legacy provoked by her early death and the loss (and likely destruction) of almost all her personal papers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on formerly inaccessible notebooks and manuscripts, \u003cem\u003eThis Dark Night\u003c\/em\u003e constructs a portrait of Brontë, her famous writing sisters Charlotte and Anne, and the effect of their sisters' and mother's tragic deaths. In the first full-length biography in over twenty years, renowned scholar Deborah Lutz sketches the days of a woman crafting otherworldly fiction while running her father's parsonage: writing interweaving with household work, daydreaming, and exploring the rough-hewn outdoors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs she traces the influence of Brontë's life and work, Lutz follows how Brontë's fantastical early poems of the night sky, women rulers, and outsiders and rebels grew into the stormy, transcendent \u003cem\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/em\u003e. Lutz also illuminates the overlooked ways that the legendary writer addressed debates of her time that still resonate today, including questions of gender and sexuality, race and class, and rapid industrialization set against the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom her menagerie of dogs and birds to the beloved moors that Brontë wandered and later emblazoned in her novel, Lutz depicts the passions of an author at odds with convention. Uniting the domestic and the cosmic, \u003cem\u003eThis Dark Night\u003c\/em\u003e plumbs the life and writing of this idiosyncratic woman, dark soul, and monumental genius.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 02\/15\/2026 (EAN 9781324037118, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/16\/2026 (EAN 9781324037118, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781324037118, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eLutz, Deborah\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDeborah Lutz\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of six books, including \n\u003cem\u003eThis Dark Night: Emily Brontë, A Life\u003c\/em\u003e and \n\u003cem\u003eThe Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \n\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \n\u003cem\u003eCabinet Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other venues, and she is the editor of two Norton Critical Editions-- \n\u003cem\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/em\u003e and \n\u003cem\u003eStrange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"W. W. 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