Lutz, Deborah.

The Bront�e cabinet : three lives in nine objects / Deborah Lutz. - First edition. - xxv, 310 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-294).

The private lives of objects -- Tiny books -- Pillopatate -- Out walking -- Keeper, Grasper, and other family animals -- Fugitive letters -- The alchemy of desks -- Death made material -- Memory albums -- Migrant relics.

Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the complex and fascinating lives of the Brontes through the things they wore, stitched, wrote on, and inscribed.

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Bront�e, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Bront�e, Emily, 1818-1848.
Bront�e, Anne, 1820-1849.


Women authors, English--19th century--Biography.
Sisters--England--Yorkshire--Biography.


Biographies.

PR 4168 / .L88 2015