‘She brought the open sky, birdsong, and the peat bogs alive on the page. The night, the stars, the moon – these were her poetic muses.’

Emily Jane Brontë was just 27 when she started writing the wayward and electric novel Wuthering Heights. Three years later, she was dead. Out of step with her own time and remembered as the strangest of the Brontë sisters, she has always been hard to know, especially given the destruction of most of her papers. But as Deborah Lutz explores, the writing that has survived seethes with storm and strife and with the beautifully desolate landscape of Yorkshire.

This unique and eye-opening biography offers fresh, illuminating readings of her poems, and reveals the politics and events of the era that informed her writing.

This Dark Night takes us inside the world of Emily’s irrepressible spirit and wild imagination like never before.