Studies the way that authors in nineteenth-century Britain used the materials of writing (and reading, drawing, note-taking, and handicraft) for inspiration, experimentation, subordination, and creative composition, with a focus on Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary Shelley. Deborah Lutz's Victorian Paper Art and Craft: Writers and Their Materials offers exciting insights into the folds, tears, snipped-out holes, and fastenings of canonical and personal texts.