One set of covers for Charlotte Brontë

Vilaweb (in Catalan) has an article on the winners of the Butaca awards. Carme Portaceli's Jane Eyre was nominated to several categories and ended up winning Best Actress (Ariadna Gil) and Best Supporting Actor (Abel Folk).

Gil ha compartit el guardó amb les altes nominades. “Estar aquí és un honor i el fet d’interpretar a Jane Eyre em va ensenyar que un ha d’aixecar-se i lluitar en les pitjors condicions i tota la il·lusió que veig ha de ser una lluita continua tot i les dificultats”, ha apuntat. Ha assegurat que és el personatge que més l’ha exigit. El millor actor de repartiment ha estat Abel Folk també per ‘Jane Eyre: una autobiografia’. (Translation)

The New Yorker discusses biographies and how their number of volumes may have conveyed a message in Victorian times.

In the nineteenth century, the big sets were usually reserved for the big politicians. Disraeli got seven volumes and Gladstone three, but the lives of the poets or the artists or even the scientists tended to be enfolded within the limits of a single volume. John Forster’s life of Dickens did take its time, and tomes, but Elizabeth Gaskell kept Charlotte Brontë within one set of covers, and Darwin got his life and letters presented in one compact volume, by his son. The modern mania for the multivolume biography of figures who seem in most ways “minor” may have begun with Michael Holroyd’s two volumes devoted to Lytton Strachey, who was wonderful and influential but a miniaturist perhaps best treated as such. (Adam Gopnik)

And The Times has some stats on audiobooks:

Almost 80 per cent of those who bought the audio version of Sir Craig Oliver’s recollections of his time in Downing Street at David Cameron’s side switched off before the referendum was lost and Sir Craig’s memoirs came to a full stop. The classics fared little better. Wuthering Heights kept only 19 per cent of its audience to the end; Crime and Punishment managed 21 per cent. But Ulysses, a listening odyssey that consumes 31 hours, was completed by only 7.5 per cent of buyers — even though rumour has it that the naughtiest bits come at the end.

Yorokobu (Spain) is amazed by the fact that Victorian women writers were actually able to write as circumstances weren't always favourable.

Prueba a escribir un novelón, un libro canónico, mientras pelas patatas como Charlotte Brontë, escondes las hojas a hurtadillas en la sala de visitas a lo Jane Austen o cuidas a tu padre como George Eliot (de nombre Mary Anne Evans, por cierto). Escribe de amor sin enamorarte libremente, de escarceos sexuales sin tenerlos, de parajes exóticos sin haber visto más allá del páramo, de trabajo sin ser otra cosa que institutriz; escribe, además, con todo tu poco tiempo y tu escaso dinero disponible. Todo eso, básicamente, resume la necesidad de la habitación propia. (Isabel Bellido) (Translation)

Elizabeth Hawksley discusses Leslie Stephen's controversial words on Mr Rochester.