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Bloomsbury presents This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë by Deborah Lutz, read by Christine Rendel
The first comprehensive biography of Emily Brontë in over two decades.
Emily Jane Brontë was just 27 when she started writing the wayward and electric novel Wuthering Heights. Three years later, she was dead. Out of step with her own time and remembered as the strangest of the Brontë sisters, there's much that we don't know about her - most of her papers were destroyed after her death. But as Deborah Lutz explores in this, one of the first biographies of Emily in 20 years, the writing that has survived seethes with storm and strife and with the beautifully desolate landscape of Yorkshire.
Drawing on a vast quantity of unexplored archival materials, Deborah reconstructs the texture of Emily Brontë's days, bringing us closer to one of the greatest and fiercest writers we have, by showing us her creative process and her confidence in her strange art.
This book has much to reveal to readers of Wuthering Heights, as we accompany Emily around the wild moorlands she loved so much. Also threaded through with the contemporary politics and events of the era (from the early labour movements of the Chartists and reformists, to the slave uprisings in the colonies), and authors and locals that Emily read about or knew (from proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to the masculine lesbian Anne Lister).
Featuring illuminating readings of her poems, This Dark Night takes us inside the world of Emily's irrepressible spirit and wild imagination.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Redbreast Early in the Morning, 1777–1820
Chapter Two: Beneath the Church-Aisle Stone, 1820–1825
Chapter Three: Night Sky, 1825–1830
Chapter Four: Feeding the Animals, 1830–1833
Chapter Five: Paper Crafts, 1834–1836
Chapter Six: Queen Moon, 1837–1838
Chapter Seven: Desperate Dunces, 1838–1839
Chapter Eight: Sacred Whacher, 1839–1840
Chapter Nine: Regive, 1840–1841
Chapter Ten: A Chainless Soul, 1841–1842
Chapter Eleven: The Great Navigator, 1842
Chapter Twelve: Half-Inhabited House, 1842–1843
Chapter Thirteen: Undergloom, 1844
Chapter Fourteen: Fifteen Wild Decembers, 1845
Chapter Fifteen: Like Wine Through Water, 1846
Chapter Sixteen: The Eternal Rocks Beneath, 1846
Chapter Seventeen: A Strange Book, 1847
Chapter Eighteen: East Wind, 1848
Chapter Nineteen: Wild and Keen, 1848
Epilogue: 1848–1860s
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
Product details
| Published | 28 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Audiobook |
| Duration | 11 hours and 56 minutes |
| ISBN | 9781399417051 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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