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An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Brontë sisters, attracted from the objects they possessed. In this unique and lovingly precise biography of any literary family that has enthralled visitors for almost two centuries, Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the sophisticated and fascinating lives of the Brontës through the things they wore, stitched, had written on, and inscribed. By unfolding the histories of the significant objects in their family home in Haworth, Lutz immerses listeners in a nuanced re-creation of the sisters' daily lives while moving us chronologically ahead through the major biographical situations: the loss of life of their mother and two sisters, the imaginary kingdoms of the youth writing, their time as governesses, and their decided efforts to produce a symbol on the literary world. In the miniature literature they made as children to the blackthorn walking sticks they continued solitary hikes on the moors, each personal possession opens a screen onto the sisters' world, their favorite fiction, and the Victorian period. A explanation of the brass training collar worn by Emily's bull mastiff, Keeper, brings about a series of enjoyable anecdotes about the affect of the family's pups on the writing and about the relationship of Victorians to their pets generally. The sisters' portable writing desks prove to have played a crucial role in their writing lives: it was Charlotte's snooping in Emily's table that led to the sisters' first publication in print, implemented later by the publication of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Charlotte's letters provide insight into her interactions, both innocent and illicit, including her romance with the aged professor to whom she had written passionately. As well as the bracelet Charlotte experienced manufactured from Anne and Emily's intertwined wild hair bears witness to her profound grief after their deaths. Lutz captivatingly shows the Brontës anew by getting us deep inside the physical world where they lived and that their writings needed inspiration..
