{"id":140739,"date":"2017-11-29T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=140739"},"modified":"2017-11-29T11:55:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:55:55","slug":"michelle-recommends-the-bronte-cabinet-deborah-lutz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=140739","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Recommends: The Bront\u00eb Cabinet – Deborah Lutz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"“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 and fascinating lives of the Bront\u00ebs through the things they wore, stitched, wrote on, and inscribed. By unfolding the histories of the meaningful objects in their family home in Haworth, Lutz immerses readers in a nuanced re-creation of the sisters’ daily lives while moving us chronologically forward through the major biographical events: the death of their mother and two sisters, the imaginary kingdoms of their childhood writing, their time as governesses, and their determined efforts to make a mark on the literary world.<\/p>\n

From the miniature books they made as children to the blackthorn walking sticks they carried on solitary hikes on the moors, each personal possession opens a window onto the sisters’ world, their beloved fiction, and the Victorian era. A description of the brass collar worn by Emily\u2019s bull mastiff, Keeper, leads to a series of entertaining anecdotes about the influence of the family\u2019s dogs on their writing and about the relationship of Victorians to their pets in general. The sisters’ portable writing desks prove to have played a crucial role in their writing lives: it was Charlotte’s snooping in Emily\u2019s desk that led to the sisters’ first publication in print, followed later by the publication of Jane Eyre<\/em><\/a> and Wuthering Heights<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Charlotte’s letters provide insight into her relationships, both innocent and illicit, including her relationship with the older professor to whom she wrote passionately. And the bracelet Charlotte had made of Anne and Emily’s intertwined hair bears witness to her profound grief after their deaths.”<\/p>\n

Pair this biography with Anne Carson’s poem “The Glass Essay” from the collection Glass, Irony, and God<\/strong><\/a>. The Bront\u00eb Cabinet<\/strong><\/a> is available to request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“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 and fascinating lives of the Bront\u00ebs through the things they wore, stitched, wrote on, and inscribed. By unfolding the histories of the meaningful objects in their family home…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":140740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biography","category-michelle-recommends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Bronte-Cabinet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-ABZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140781,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140739\/revisions\/140781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}