Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the Byronic hero, or the
Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff in 1939
Heathcliff (played by Richard Burton) with Catherine (played by Yvonne Furneaux) in a 1958 adaptation of Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff (played by Olivier) and Catherine (played by Merle Oberon) as portrayed in the 1939 film
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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
Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)
…Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the Byronic hero, or the tortured antihero, whose all-consuming…
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)