This Dark Night: In conversation with Deborah Lutz

This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë – a rare event with globally renowned scholar, author and Emily Brontë expert Deborah Lutz

Come along for your chance to meet the globally renowned Emily Brontë expert Deborah Lutz and be among the first to hear her speak about her just released book This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë (publishing 28th May and available to buy from the Museum shop).

The first full biography of Emily Brontë in over two decades,This Dark Night is unique, eye-opening and offers a fresh take on her short but momentous life.

In this event, Deborah Lutz will take you inside the world of Emily’s irrepressible spirit and wild imagination like never before. Deborah will be in discussion with Yvette Cooper offering illuminating readings of Emily’s poems and a greater understanding of the politics and events of the era, as well as the delights and tragedies of family life that Lutz shows directly inspired much of Emily and her sisters’ writing in her book.

Deborah Lutz is a Victorian literature scholar who has been teaching and writing about the Brontës for decades. She was the editor of a Norton Critical Edition of Jane Eyre and a Norton Library edition of Wuthering Heights. Her book The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects was shortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.

Deborah is one of the only people who has felt and examined much of the Brontës’ material leftovers including the handwritten manuscript of Emily’s poems rediscovered in 2021 at Honresfield House near Haworth Parsonage. Deborah lives in New York and will be travelling to the UK so this event will be a special occasion.

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