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Deborah Lutz

Biography

Deborah Lutz

Deborah Lutz is the Kelly Professor in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature at Pennsylvania State University. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, including the New York Times. She lives in Pennsylvania and New York City.

Deborah Lutz

Books by Deborah Lutz

by Deborah Lutz - Biography, Nonfiction

Emily Brontë was only 27-years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. It took the world almost a century to catch up to Brontë’s masterpiece and it has taken even longer to know Brontë. Drawing on formerly inaccessible notebooks and manuscripts, THIS DARK NIGHT 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 20 years, renowned scholar Deborah Lutz sketches the days of a woman crafting otherworldly fiction while running her father’s parsonage. From 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.