Chapter 23: Charlotte Brontë, featuring Jessica St. Clair

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Chapter 23: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) risks consumption whilst interviewing the frail, sad-sack author of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (Jessica St. Clair).

Thanks to The Time Travel Mart and 826LA.

826 National is a nonprofit organization that provides strategic leadership, administration, and other resources to ensure the success of its network of eight writing and tutoring centers. 826 centers offer a variety of inventive programs that provide under-resourced students, ages 6-18, with opportunities to explore their creativity and improve their writing skills. We also aim to help teachers get their classes excited about writing. Our mission is based on the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. Last year our tutoring centers — located in Ann Arbor, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC — served over 29,000 students.

For more information: http://826national.org/chapters/

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0:00.0	This Podcast is intended as Entertainment for Grownups and to spread awareness of 826 LA, a non-profit writing and tutoring center for children ages 6 to 18. For a full schedule of 826 LA's events and programs, including the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, visit 826.org.
0:16.4	And now here is the host of the Dead Authors Podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells. G. Welles.
0:28.0	Greetings loyal listeners and welcome to another chapter of the Dead Authors podcast. Speaking to you now is me, your host H.G. Wells.
0:32.0	Do you know, I get so many cards, letters, essays, tweets, electronic
0:37.0	mails and the like here at the podcast, and while I would so love to answer them all personally,
0:42.4	it turns out I love a great many other things even more.
0:45.0	Reading, watching a bit of telly, nipping down to the shops for a curry or to the pump for a pint,
0:50.0	even sitting perfectly still and staring off into space.
0:54.6	There are just so very many things I love and really, what is life without love?
0:59.6	And furthermore, what is love, baby, don't hurt me.
1:04.0	Still and all, so many of you out there are so terribly curious about the origins of my wonderful
1:09.0	time machine that I feel obligated to put down this delightful book of word search puzzles and address your
1:15.0	incessant queries.
1:16.8	Long time listeners of the podcast know that I found the time machine at a church jumble sale.
1:21.4	It was tucked away beneath a stack of crocheted tea cozies and one soiled
1:25.2	Doncaster Rovers football jersey. After a bit of haggling, a local youth helped me strap
1:30.0	it to the roof of my motor car and the rest is, dare I say history, you know I dare.
1:36.0	I tried for quite some time to more thoroughly research the time machine's provenance, but always
1:41.1	came up empty.
1:42.1	Then you, Lott, had to chime in with your bloody telegrams and voicemail, which once again I would just love to be able to answer and so I decided to take another look. To my surprise, I discovered a brass plate affixed to the seat of the machine,
1:56.5	tucked away beneath a fine velvet cushion.
1:59.0	The plate was inscribed with a set of co-ordinance,
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