Amber K. Regis is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her previous work includes a critical edition of John Addington Symonds's Memoirs (2016) and various essays on life-writing, portraits, prefaces, Taylor Swift and grief. She is co-editor with Deborah Wynne of Charlotte Brontë Legacies and Afterlives (2017), to which she contributed a chapter on Brontë biodrama. Deborah Wynne is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Chester, UK. Her research focuses on Victorian writers and material culture. She is the author of The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine (2001) and Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel (2010). She has more recently published articles and book chapters on Charlotte Brontë and has co-edited with Amber K. Regis, Charlotte Brontë Legacies and Afterlives (2017), and with Louisa Yates, Victorian Material Culture: Manufactured Things (2022).
A fresh and richly engaging collection of essays. Brontë enthusiasts will enjoy exploring the family's artistic relationships with the imaginary and material worlds around them. This wide-ranging volume also subjects the Brontës' artistic afterlives to some fascinating analysis, proving that the Brontës continue to exert a potent influence, from stage to visual art and now digital media.--Christine Alexander, UNSW Sydney