This Dark Night: Emily Brontë, A Life

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) was only twenty-seven years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later, in 1847, she completedWuthering Heights. It took the world almost a century to catch up to Brontë's masterpiece, and it has taken even longer to know Brontë-an elusive figure, with a ghostly legacy provoked by her early death and the loss (and destruction) of almost all her personal papers.

Drawing on formerly inaccessible notebooks and ma...