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Deborah Lutz
Deborah Lutz is the author of six books, including This Dark Night: Emily Brontë, A Life and The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects, which was shortlisted for the PEN/Weld Award for Biography. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library, and has twice been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships. She teaches Victorian literature and culture at Pennsylvania State University as the George and Barbara Kelly Professor in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature. Past honors include fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Cabinet Magazine, and many other venues, and she is the editor of two Norton Critical Editions—Jane Eyre and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Deborah Lutz
Deborah Lutz is the author of six books, including This Dark Night: Emily Brontë, A Life and The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects, which was shortlisted for the PEN/Weld Award for Biography. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library, and has twice been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships. She teaches Victorian literature and culture at Pennsylvania State University as the George and Barbara Kelly Professor in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature. Past honors include fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Cabinet Magazine, and many other venues, and she is the editor of two Norton Critical Editions—Jane Eyre and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Books by Deborah Lutz

Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism
Deborah Lutz
Hardback, 2011
A smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London.
The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects
Deborah Lutz
Hardback, 2015
An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Brontë sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed.
The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects
Deborah Lutz
Paperback, 2016
An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Brontë sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed.
Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism
Deborah Lutz
E Book, 2011
A smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London.
The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects
Deborah Lutz
E Book, 2015
An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Brontë sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed.
This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life
Deborah Lutz
Hardback, 2026
The first biography in more than twenty years of Emily Jane Brontë, extraordinary poet and author of the incomparable Wuthering Heights

This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life
Deborah Lutz
E Book
The first biography in more than twenty years of Emily Jane Brontë, extraordinary poet and author of the incomparable Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre: A Norton Critical Edition
Charlotte Brontë, Deborah Lutz
Fourth Edition, Paperback, 2016
Based on the 1848 edition text, the Brontës’ gifted biographer provides a superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Norton Critical Edition
Robert Louis Stevenson, Deborah Lutz
Second Edition, Paperback, 2021
“The annotations are useful, particularly for references to biblical and other literary allusions. [The contexts] section is essential to alerting students to the many subtexts/contexts of the...
Jane Eyre: A Norton Critical Edition
Charlotte Brontë, Deborah Lutz
Fourth Edition, E Book, 2021
Based on the 1848 edition text, the Brontës’ gifted biographer provides a superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel.



