Deborah Lutz: 4 books

An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Brontë sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed. In this unique and lovingly detailed biography of a literary family that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries, Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the complex...

Este íntimo retrato de las hermanas Brontë, construido a partir de sus objetos personales, aporta un nuevo y original enfoque en la inagotable tarea de conocer más sobre su extraordinario legado literario. En esta biografía única y detallada de una familia literaria que ha cautivado a los lectores...

A smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London. In 1860s London, two loosely overlapping groups of bohemians—the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes—challenged the buttoned-up Victorian propriety to promote erotic...

Nineteenth-century Britons treasured objects of daily life that had once belonged to their dead. The love of these keepsakes, which included hair, teeth, and other remains, speaks of an intimacy with the body and death, a way of understanding absence through its materials, which is less widely felt...