Deborah Lutz's books include Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism and Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture. The Thruston B. Morton Professor of English at the University of Louisville, she lives in Louisville, Kentucky, and Brooklyn, New York.
The Bronte Cabinet is full of illuminating and original insights, bringing aspects of the Brontes' lives into sharp focus for the first time. -- Literary Review The Bronte 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 Brontes 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 Brontes and their wild genius. -- Shahidha Bari - Times Higher Education In looking at the Brontes 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 Bronte Cabinet] is a dynamic, powerful and very accessible book, which abandons womb-to-tomb biography to look at the Brontes through the 'eyes' of thread, paper, wood, jet, hair, bone, brass, fur, frond, leather, velvet, and ash . -- The Times Literary Supplement