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In this unique and lovingly detailed biography of a literary family that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries, Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the complex and fascinating lives of the Brontės through the things they wore, stitched, wrote on, and inscribed. By unfolding the histories of the meaningful objects in their family home in Haworth, Lutz immerses readers in a nuanced re-creation of the sisters' daily lives while moving us chronologically forward through the major biographical events: the death of their mother and two sisters, the imaginary kingdoms of their childhood writing, their time as governesses, and their determined efforts to make a mark on the literary world.From the miniature books they made as children to the blackthorn walking sticks they carried on solitary hikes on the moors, each personal possession opens a window onto the sisters' world, their beloved fiction, and the Victorian era. A description of the brass collar worn by Emily’s bull mastiff, Keeper, leads to a series of entertaining anecdotes about the influence of the family’s dogs on their writing and about the relationship of Victorians to their pets in general. The sisters' portable writing desks prove to have played a crucial role in their writing lives: it was Charlotte's snooping in Emily’s desk that led to the sisters' first publication in print, followed later by the publication of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.Charlotte's letters provide insight into her relationships, both innocent and illicit, including her relationship with the older professor to whom she wrote passionately. And the bracelet Charlotte had made of Anne and Emily's intertwined hair bears witness to her profound grief after their deaths.Lutz captivatingly shows the Brontės anew by bringing us deep inside the physical world in which they lived and from which their writings took inspiration.

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"A passionate, intelligent, and stylish book. Deborah Lutz works a kind of magic around the Brontes' possessions and evokes their lives, works, and legacies more vividly than ever. A brilliantly original study that all Brontė lovers will want to read." -- Claire Harman, author of Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World "The most mundane object carries a lifetime of experience within it. Daily life, and the objects of daily living, can speak to us, if we are willing to listen. Deborah Lutz has listened to what the Brontės' possessions tell us, and produced an original, enlightening and acute reading of these original, enlightening and acute women's writings." -- Judith Flanders, author of The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London "What an impressive web of detail, housed within compact and elegant sentences! This jeweled book--an act of intricate divination--brings the Brontės to life by performing a magical investigation of the objects surrounding them. Deborah Lutz exercises a dowser's wondrous rigor; with erudition, deep feeling, and an almost mystical sense of an inanimate object's communicativeness, she pioneers a new way of looking at detritus and keepsakes, and a new way of writing biography." --Wayne Koestenbaum, author of My 1980s & Other Essays

"...full of illuminating and original insights, bringing aspects of the Brontė's lives into sharp focus for the first time."

--Literary Review

"Lutz makes connections that are effective and often full of enjoyable speculation...In looking at the Brontės through their most precious possessions, Lutz lets us sneak a peek at their inner lives as well as their outer ones, in a sympathetic and informative way."

--The Independent

"That vaguely platitudinous tagline does little justice to the world Lutz manages to conjure in this astonishing project, which is brimful of meticulous details, observant asides and anecdotes. The various items (including letters, walking sticks and twined bracelets of hair) are gathered like talismans, and duly perform some sort of magic, transporting readers into the domestic life of the Brontės. Lutz immerses us in their mundane material reality and distils an understanding of their work that is almost always illuminating and unexpected...This is a fine book, rich, immersive and illuminating, glowing with the life of the Brontės and their wild genius."

--Times Higher Education

"a dynamic, powerful and very accessible book...Deborah Lutz's frankness about her own fascination and her willingness to leave space for other people's fascination with the "three weird sisters", as Ted Hughes (himself fascinated) calls them, makes this wonderfully fresh and insightful biography simultaneously an act of resurrection and of mourning."

--Times Literary Supplement
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Deborah Lutz's books include Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism and Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture. A professor of English at Long Island University, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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