'Do you like the truth? It is well for you. Adhere to that
preference - never swerve thence.' - Charlotte Bronte, 'Shirley'
The Jenkins family knew the Brontes in Brussels and West Yorkshire.
Eager to learn about them, their descendant read the Bronte
biographies, and discovered that no one had researched this family,
and, worse, that what was written was fabricated, with one
biographer copying another, embroidering, even making up dialogue.
Yet Mrs Gaskell had deliberately sought out Mrs Jenkins when
researching her famous Life of Charlotte. If it had not been for
Mrs Jenkins, Charlotte would never have gone to Brussels, never met
M. Heger. There would be no 'Villette', no 'Jane Eyre'. This book
purges the lies and identifies one of Charlotte's characters for
the first time. It reveals a thrumming wire that connects Byron to
Trollope to Henry James, and gives further evidence of the adultery
of William Wordsworth's eldest son. Above all, it gives a radical
new perspective on the inspiration for Charlotte's novels and those
vital two years she spent in Brussels.
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