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Even before Charlotte Brontë’s death in 1855, Victorian-era readers had started to make the pilgrimage to the Brontë family’s home in Haworth, England.

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The flow of visitors, and the fascination with the Brontë siblings, continues today.

In The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects, Deborah Lutz explores the childhoods of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and their siblings through the objects in the Brontë’s family home. Slatebooks and culture columnist Laura Miller spoke to Lutz, the Thruston B.

Morton professor of English at the University of Louisville, on her podcast about Jane Eyre, the second selection in Slate’s Year of Great Books series.

This conversation has been edited and condensed.

Miller: When they were very young, Charlotte, Anne, Emily, and Branwell, their brother, made these tiny books about imaginary worlds that the The Bronte siblings, how their childhood shaped their novels ...

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