This dark night: the life of Emily Brontë

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 biography, 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, Lutz 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 as we accompany Emily around the wild moorlands she loved so much.

Genres

Biography

Language

English

Publisher

Bloomsbury Continuum

ISBN

9781399417082