Deborah Lutz is the author of six books, including This Dark Night: Emily Brontë, A Life and The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects, which was shortlisted for the PEN/Weld Award for Biography. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library, and has twice been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships. She teaches Victorian literature and culture at Pennsylvania State University as the George and Barbara Kelly Professor in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature. Past honors include fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Cabinet Magazine, and many other venues, and she is the editor of two Norton Critical Editions—Jane Eyre and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
"The Bronte Cabinet is full of illuminating and original insights, bringing aspects of the Brontes' lives into sharp focus for the first time." -- Literary Review "The Bronte Cabinet does not fail to deliver, offering vivid interpretations of the lives and the works of these strange and fascinating sisters..." -- The Times "Deborah Lutz's engaging new study proves that there is indeed room for fresh perspectives...All lovers of the Brontes should read this book." -- The Guardian "Full of interest..." -- The Sunday Telegraph "This is a fine book, rich, immersive and illuminating, glowing with the life of the Brontes and their wild genius." -- Shahidha Bari - Times Higher Education "In looking at the Brontes 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 "...Lutz has found a way of teasing out some genuinely fresh insights into a subject that might otherwise feel as though it has been done to death." -- Mail on Sunday
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