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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. A Guggenheim, Cullman, and NEH Fellow, she is the author of THE BRONTË CABINET, PLEASURE BOUND and other works. 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

This Dark Night: Emily Brontë, A Life
by Deborah Lutz - Biography, History, Nonfiction

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was only 27 years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later in 1847, she completed WUTHERING HEIGHTS. 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. 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.