Beerstorming with Charlotte Brontë in New York is a work documenting Mary Taylor’s friendship with Charlotte Brontë by one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most innovative multi-award-winning writers. The project was funded by Creative New Zealand.

Rachel Fenton set out to New York from Aotearoa via Chicago to research one of Yorkshire and Aotearoa’s most overlooked significant writers but found herself – a working-class woman with dyscalculia – uncovering much more.

Written over five intensive cold days in New York’s libraries but spanning the author’s native Yorkshire and New Zealand, from the mid-nineteenth century to the first days of Donald Trump’s Presidency, Beerstorming with Charlotte Brontë in New York is ultimately about the triumph of friendship over distance.