The Brontë Cabinet

Reviews

"The Brontë Cabinet is full of illuminating and original insights, bringing aspects of the Brontës' lives into sharp focus for the first time." — Literary Review

"The Brontë Cabinet does not fail to deliver, offering vivid interpretations of the lives and the works of these strange and fascinating sisters…" — The Times

"Deborah Lutz’s engaging new study proves that there is indeed room for fresh perspectives...All lovers of the Brontës should read this book." — The Guardian

"Full of interest…" — The Sunday Telegraph

"This is a fine book, rich, immersive and illuminating, glowing with the life of the Brontës and their wild genius." — Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education

"In looking at the Brontës through their most precious possessions, Lutz lets us sneak a peek at their inner lives as well as their outer ones, in a sympathetic and informative way." — The Independent

"...Lutz has found a way of teasing out some genuinely fresh insights into a subject that might otherwise feel as though it has been done to death." — Mail on Sunday

"It [The Brontë Cabinet] is a dynamic, powerful and very accessible book, which abandons womb-to-tomb biography to look at the Brontës "through the 'eyes' of thread, paper, wood, jet, hair, bone, brass, fur, frond, leather, velvet, and ash"." — The Times Literary Supplement

"Her [Lutz's] book is most fascinating not when it looks at the relics, the walking sticks and tiny shoes, but at the great mass of writerly and literary paraphernalia associated with the Brontës; the paperiness of their lives." — The London Review of Books