Hi everybody, we wanted to let you know that in partnership with the Fetzer Institute,

we have been able to offer some scholarships for two of our upcoming pilgrimages.

Our Duke by Default pilgrimage, we can offer a $1,500 scholarship and our Harry Potter

and the Prisoner of Azkaban pilgrimage, we can offer $1,000 scholarships.

To find out more, go to readingandwalkingwith.com, we can only do this while supplies last.

We have five spots available on each trip, I hope to see you there.

Go to readingandwalkingwith.com.

We've spent the last several months combing over my favorite novel, Jane Eyre.

We've spoken to some of the world's greatest experts on the novel and wrestled with its brilliance

and its shortcomings, as our ideological horizons allow us to currently see them.

We've explored how this masterpiece somehow has been straddling the line of marginalized

and canon for nearly 185 years.

We've spent these last months exploring how problematic this novel is.

We've looked at its pro-colonialism, pro-missionary racism.

We've reckoned with the fact that it is about an 18-year-old girl

and her relationship with a 40-year-old boss.

So here it is.

Should I hand it to my 11th, 13-year-old on her 14th birthday in a few months?

The way that it was handed to me online?

Or should we stop the madness, kiss this book goodbye,

and relegate it to the halls of Pamela and other books that we respect for their impact on literature

but would never hand to our children?

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