Byronic hero
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The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron. Historian and critic Lord Macaulay described the character as "a man proud,
Byron c. 1816, by Henry Harlow
Laurence Olivier as the Byronic hero Heathcliff in an adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name Ellis Bell. It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning familie
Byronic hero
…Byron's personal physician, John William Polidori. Edmond Dantès from Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Heathcliff from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847), and Rochester from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) are other later 19th-century examples of Byronic heroes. In later Victorian literature…
Title page of the first edition, 1847
The climb to ruined farmhouse Top Withens, thought to have inspired the Earnshaws' home in Wuthering Heights
High Sunderland Hall in 1818, shortly before Emily Brontë saw the building.
Diana Vernon from Walter Scott's Rob Roy, painted by John Everett Millais (1880)