An engaging study sheds new light on the siblings by examining the material remnants of their lives
Do we really need another book about the Brontës? Few English writers have been more intensely biographised than Charlotte, Emily and Anne, and since Juliet Barker’s monumental The Brontës of 1995, the historical facts about literature’s most famous family have been placed on record, seemingly definitively. The “three weird sisters”, as Ted Hughes once called them, have been stripped of their accretion of myth; what more is there to be said?
Deborah Lutz’s engaging new study proves that there is indeed room for fresh perspectives. Her highly personal voyage through the sisters’ lives, works and times is less a straight biography than an act of necromancy that allows us to feel the texture of the Brontës’ experience, both inner and outer. She pulls off the hardest trick in literary biography: to make us feel that we know the subjects intimately, and, simultaneously, to make the familiar strange and remind us of the space that separates us from the dead
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Deborah Lutz’s engaging new study proves that there is indeed room for fresh perspectives. Her highly personal voyage through the sisters’ lives, works and times is less a straight biography than an act of necromancy that allows us to feel the texture of the Brontës’ experience, both inner and outer. She pulls off the hardest trick in literary biography: to make us feel that we know the subjects intimately, and, simultaneously, to make the familiar strange and remind us of the space that separates us from the dead
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