{"product_id":"9781399417082","title":"This Dark Night : The Life of Emily Bronte","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Lutz, Deborah \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eUnited Kingdom, Great Britain\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 28 May 2026 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Continuum) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 352 pages, Black and white illustrations and images interspersed throughout the text.\u003cbr\u003e236 x 158 | 580g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first comprehensive biography of Emily Brontë in over two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing illuminating readings of her poems, This Dark Night takes us inside the world of Emily's irrepressible spirit and wild imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58201102647677,"sku":"9781399417082","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9781399417082.jpg?v=1779552708","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.com\/products\/9781399417082","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}