Monica’s Lies and the Brontës: The Quest for the Jenkins Family will be published on the 205th birthday of Charlotte Brontë (21 April 2021). ‘Tant pis’, Charlotte might retort. But for the first time the book purges the fabrications that have benighted Brontë biographies. Read Villette – some of Monica’s Jenkins ancestors are in that brilliant novel. Monica was a book editor for too many years, has MAs from Oxford and UCL, and having moved to North Wales from London is currently embroiled in a Saxon v. Welsh struggle with her PhD supervisor at Aberystwyth University.

Monica Kendall, Lies and the Brontës: The Quest for the Jenkins Family (Bristol: SilverWood, 2021)