This Dark Night by Deborah Lutz review – an illuminating window on Emily Brontë’s world

Vivid, tactile details make Lutz’s biography a beautifully textured and convincing read Both Emily Brontë and her only novel Wuthering Heights have been called “deranged”, “crazed” or (especially online, in the wake of the recent film) “unhinged”. So it’s a relief to read a biography where she comes across, instead, as more grounded, steady, sane. Deborah Lutz, whose 2015 book The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects made such an impression, anchors her narrative in solid things: the t...

By Samantha Ellis