Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White. I'm Karen Swallow Pryor.

And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are answering your questions about Charlotte Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre.

We've come to the end of our Jane Eyre conversation.

I mean, you never really come to the end of a conversation about Jane Eyre.

But we've come to the end of our time to discuss Jane Eyre on this podcast right now.

Karen, just want to say again, thank you so much for being here.

And it'll be, I mean, we're glad to have Tim back, but it'll be a little weird not, you know, looking at you over the Zoom chat, having you talk about a book you love.

And hearing my dogs.

Right. Hearing your dogs. Right. It's an essential part. It's an essential part of the show.

I like the UPS man decides to come on Thursdays right when we're recording, but consistently.

Well, we are here to answer your listener questions. We've got plenty. So let's just dive right in.

I think we're going to have a lot to talk about and have a hard time even getting to half of these questions.

That's my guess. There's a question here from Sarah. This is just a very, I think we can answer this in just a couple seconds even. Karen, Sarah is wondering if this book was originally published as a complete novel or in three volumes, and then if it was in three, as many novels were at the time, was it altogether at once? Or was it published serially?

It was published altogether at once. It wasn't a serial novel, right?

I figured that was, that was an easy one to just, you know, we get a good rhythm here.

Just knock a couple out. This one, we'll take a little bit longer time, but I don't think we'll be,

take too long. Also from Sarah's group of local close readers. And she says, is Jane a reliable

narrator? And she says, given past discussions, it might seem like we're poking fun, but we really do want to know if, since Jane is looking back on her life, we're to interpret

her memories and impressions as accurate. Karen, I'll let you jump on that one as well. And how do

if you want to jump in, you can. But Karen, I know you've got, you've done some studying of the evolution

of narrators and literature. So where does So where does Jane fit in on that continuum?

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