This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë
Autor Deborah Lutzen Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 mai 2026
'This biography is a wonderful book' -- Guardian
The author of Wuthering Heights and strangest of the Brontë sisters is brought back to life in this stormy biography set amongst the wild moors of Yorkshire.
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399417082
ISBN-10: 1399417088
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: Black and white illustrations and images interspersed throughout the text.
Dimensiuni: 158 x 236 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1399417088
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: Black and white illustrations and images interspersed throughout the text.
Dimensiuni: 158 x 236 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Preface
Chapter One: Redbreast Early in the Morning, 1777-1820
Chapter Two: Beneath the Church-Aisle Stone, 1820-1825
Chapter Three: Night Sky, 1825-1830
Chapter Four: Feeding the Animals, 1830-1833
Chapter Five: Paper Crafts, 1834-1836
Chapter Six: Queen Moon, 1837-1838
Chapter Seven: Desperate Dunces, 1838-1839
Chapter Eight: Sacred Whacher, 1839-1840
Chapter Nine: Regive, 1840-1841
Chapter Ten: A Chainless Soul, 1841-1842
Chapter Eleven: The Great Navigator, 1842
Chapter Twelve: Half-Inhabited House, 1842-1843
Chapter Thirteen: Undergloom, 1844
Chapter Fourteen: Fifteen Wild Decembers, 1845
Chapter Fifteen: Like Wine Through Water, 1846
Chapter Sixteen: The Eternal Rocks Beneath, 1846
Chapter Seventeen: A Strange Book, 1847
Chapter Eighteen: East Wind, 1848
Chapter Nineteen: Wild and Keen, 1848
Epilogue: 1848-1860s
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
Chapter One: Redbreast Early in the Morning, 1777-1820
Chapter Two: Beneath the Church-Aisle Stone, 1820-1825
Chapter Three: Night Sky, 1825-1830
Chapter Four: Feeding the Animals, 1830-1833
Chapter Five: Paper Crafts, 1834-1836
Chapter Six: Queen Moon, 1837-1838
Chapter Seven: Desperate Dunces, 1838-1839
Chapter Eight: Sacred Whacher, 1839-1840
Chapter Nine: Regive, 1840-1841
Chapter Ten: A Chainless Soul, 1841-1842
Chapter Eleven: The Great Navigator, 1842
Chapter Twelve: Half-Inhabited House, 1842-1843
Chapter Thirteen: Undergloom, 1844
Chapter Fourteen: Fifteen Wild Decembers, 1845
Chapter Fifteen: Like Wine Through Water, 1846
Chapter Sixteen: The Eternal Rocks Beneath, 1846
Chapter Seventeen: A Strange Book, 1847
Chapter Eighteen: East Wind, 1848
Chapter Nineteen: Wild and Keen, 1848
Epilogue: 1848-1860s
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
Recenzii
Refreshing. [Lutz] is excellent on the intimacy of Emily's writing about grief. this biography is a wonderful book.
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.
Discerning
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.
Atmospheric and empathetic. A thoughtful, imaginative portrait that brings fresh interpretation to familiar ground.
Splendid.Lutz's exhilarating prose animates This Dark Night, lending fresh insights into the life and writing of one of literature's most enduring authors.
I loved this illuminating, comprehensive biography.
Deborah Lutz's extraordinary This Dark Night 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 Wuthering Heights, with a rare brilliance derived from passionate and abiding engagement.
Deborah 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.
This Dark Night 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.
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.
Discerning
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.
Atmospheric and empathetic. A thoughtful, imaginative portrait that brings fresh interpretation to familiar ground.
Splendid.Lutz's exhilarating prose animates This Dark Night, lending fresh insights into the life and writing of one of literature's most enduring authors.
I loved this illuminating, comprehensive biography.
Deborah Lutz's extraordinary This Dark Night 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 Wuthering Heights, with a rare brilliance derived from passionate and abiding engagement.
Deborah 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.
This Dark Night 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.