{"podcast":{"title":"Required Reading","slug":"required-reading-6583413","podcast_index_feed_id":6583413,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/requiredreading/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/requiredreading","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/requiredreading/20230822_100840_829c2b1c690009007adcdc7e81c9d9c6.jpg","author":"Erin Bowles","episode_count":117,"summary":"Required Reading revisits the most impactful books from our childhood with a new guest every week.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-14T14:21:45.999157+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/required-reading-6583413"},"episode":{"title":"Jane Eyre with Madeline North!","slug":"jane-eyre-with-madeline-north","published_at":"2026-02-19T02:53:12+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/required-reading-6583413/jane-eyre-with-madeline-north","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/required-reading-6583413","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/requiredreading/2559484","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/207335/2559484/requiredreading/2026_02_19_01_04_56_d274303c-9da8-4fa9-8da4-8c8a4fa1ea37.mp3","summary":"We're back! Erin got laid off and then went on vacation, but now we're back! We as in the royal we. Madeline North also returns to discuss Charlotte Bronte's 1847 classic: JANE EYRE. And we also talk a lot about Wuthering Heights. It can't be helped! Jane Eyre follows orphan Jane from ages 10-20 as she escapes a cruel home to go to an even crueler boarding school, then becomes a governess, falls in love, almost gets married, finds out her employer/fiance's been keeping a secret wife in the attic, gets the heck outta there, joins a family, finds out they're her real family, gets a lot of money, goes back to the employer and makes him a husband. And that's what you missed on Glee! In this episode we discuss my video essay about the book (ooooooo) and this video essay about some common Charlotte Bronte misconceptions ! Follow Madeline ! Listen to her previous episodes on Eragon and The Princess Bride ! Follow Erin ! Support the pod !","meta_description":"We're back! Erin got laid off and then went on vacation, but now we're back! We as in the royal we. Madeline North also returns to discuss Charlotte Bront…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5090,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/required-reading-6583413/episodes/jane-eyre-with-madeline-north/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/required-reading-6583413/jane-eyre-with-madeline-north.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}