Episode 321: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, Ch. 13-19
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
On The Literary Life Podcast this week, Angelina and Thomas cover chapters 13-19 of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Today's episode includes more discussion of the important symbols and images in these chapters. Angelina highlights the stories of Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast, and Cupid and Psyche and their connections to this book. She and Thomas also talk about the trope of the "reformed rake" and how it relates to Brontë is setting up that possibility here. In these chapters we see more fire images, as well as several things that point to this story as a journey of the soul for both Jane and Mr. Rochester.
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| 1:09.7 | This is the Literary Life Podcast. |
| 1:30.8 | Hello and welcome back to the Literary Life podcast. |
| 1:35.6 | I'm Angelina Stanford, and here with me is the gypsy of the House of Humane Letters. I'm here you were going to do that. |
| 1:38.1 | What would you rather me say, the Blanche Ingram? |
| 1:42.3 | I can't really win with any of the supporting characters. |
| 1:45.1 | It doesn't be any former Rochester. |
| 1:46.8 | You're not. |
| 1:48.4 | You could not be less Rochester. |
| 1:50.3 | I'm very un-Rochisterian. |
| 1:52.7 | Thank goodness. |
| 1:53.2 | I'm not Jane Eyre, so this works. |
| 1:56.0 | We are continuing our discussion of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. |
| 2:00.3 | And today we're going to cover |
| 2:01.3 | chapters 13 through 19. |
| 2:04.7 | Ooh, okay, I remembered 13, 13 through 19. |
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