"Lutz's Emily is an eminently practical woman who wrote while baking, in front of a peat fire perched on a little stool, or while walking and who used the tactile keeping of order as a prop and prompt to lose herself in the sublimity of art-making and moor-haunting."
"She counts the sampler Emily made at 10 as one of her earliest extant writings, and while other scholars have dismissed it as a collection of copied platitudes, Lutz notices that one line Emily stitched, from Proverbs, suggests that maybe she was already thinking about wuthering."
"Lutz lovingly describes the little books the Bronte children made as delightful, tiny objects to match their toys and still-small selves, texts holding secretive and insular qualities."
"She calls the one-page diaries Emily made with Anne a new writing practice, one that feels distinctly modern, even avant garde, as they crammed in descriptions of their cooking, their chatter, their animals, their made-up heroines; stream of consciousness nearly a century before Virginia Woolf."
Deborah Lutz presents Emily Bronte as a practical and steady individual, contrasting with the common perception of her as deranged. Lutz emphasizes Emily's tactile approach to writing, highlighting her early sampler and the unique diaries she created with her sister Anne. These diaries exhibit a modern, stream-of-consciousness style. Lutz appreciates the Bronte children's small books as delightful objects, showcasing their secretive qualities. The narrative avoids sensationalism, focusing instead on Emily's grounded nature and her relationship with her environment and art-making.
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