This dark night : Emily Brontë, a life / Deborah Lutz.
"Emily Brontë was only twenty-seven-years old when she started work on one of the most important novels in the English language. In two years, she completed Wuthering Heights in 1847, while the world took almost a hundred years to catch up. It has taken the world even longer to know Brontë--enigmatic, less initially renowned than sister Charlotte of JANE EYRE fame, and with a legacy marred by the loss (and likely destruction) of almost all her personal papers. THIS DARK NIGHT is a portrait of Emily Brontë, her writing sisters, and the material and cultural world they lived in, tracing Brontë's passions from the incomparable moors outside her home to the storm, strife, and longing that populates her poetry and novel. Deborah Lutz reconstructs the texture of Emily's days as masterful writer and woman tending to a household in Victorian England. She places Brontë in the history of modern thought and emerges with a mythic figure: consummate artist, deeply idiosyncratic person, and creator of a cherished and extraordinarily influential work"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781324037118
- ISBN: 1324037113
- Physical Description: xvi, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2026]
- Copyright: ©2026
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-323) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Preface -- Redbreast early in the morning, 1777-1820 -- Beneath the church-aisle stone, 1820-1825 -- Night sky, 1825-1830 -- Feeding the animals, 1830-1833 -- Paper crafts, 1834-1836 -- Queen moon, 1837-1838 -- Desperate dunces, 1838-1839 -- Sacred whacher, 1839-1840 -- Regive, 1840-1841 -- A chainless soul, 1841-1842 -- The great navigator, 1842 -- Half-inhabited house, 1842-1843 -- Undergloom, 1844 -- Fifteen wild Decembers, 1845 -- Like wine through water, 1846 -- The eternal rocks beneath, 1846 -- A strange book, 1847 -- East wind, 1848 --Wild and keen, 1848 -- Epilogue: 1848-1860s -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | BIO BRONTË (Text) | 36015002719520 | Adult New Biography | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | B BRONTE (Text) | 50503011234020 | Adult New Nonfiction | On holds shelf | - |
| Beaufort Main | B BRONTE (Text) | 34208900287409 | Adult New Biography | Available | - |
| Black Mountain Library | B BRONTE (Text) | 0020514177300 | Adult New Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/22/2026 |
| Bordeaux Library | CMB1989541 (Text) | CMB1989541 | Technical Services | In process | - |
| Cliffdale Library | CMB1989541 (Text) | CMB1989542 | Technical Services | In process | - |
| Columbus Library | B BRONTE (Text) | 31250200096708 | Adult New Biography | Checked out | 08/19/2026 |
| Eden Library | B Bronte (Text) | 31554012281621 | Adult New Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/19/2026 |
| Etowah Branch | BRONTE (Text) | 33258010590587 | Adult New Biography | Available | - |
| Fairview Library | B BRONTE (Text) | 0020514172111 | Adult New Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/22/2026 |
