Heathcliff Rochester, a 'cosplaying real estate agent'

ScreenRant lists the '10 Wildest Characters Howard the Duck Introduced to Official Marvel Continuity' and one of them is

10 Heathcliff Rochester

First Appearance: Howard the Duck #6

Howard encountered the odd Heathcliff Rochester early in his time on Earth. A real estate agent, Heathcliff, was put in charge of selling a supposedly haunted house, and mistook Howard for the buyer. His name is a mashup of Heathcliff, from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Mister Rochester, from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Drawing from his namesakes, Heathcliff Rochester dresses up as a Regency-era highwayman, right down to the horse. Billing himself as a “lifestyle consultant,” this cosplaying real estate agent is but one of many bizarre characters originating in Howard the Duck. (Shaun Corley)

Publishers' Weekly looks at 'New and Noteworthy Children's and YA Books: January 2024' and one of them is

Escaping Mr. Rochester

L.L. McKinney. HarperTeen, $19.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-298626-9. Ages 13 and up. In this retelling of the Charlotte Brontë novel, after Black 19-year-old Jane Eyre takes a job as governess for Edward Rochester, her friendship with his daughter and secretly confined wife lead her to question her employer’s intentions. The book received a starred review from PW.

Who Do You Think You Are magazine features a woman whose ancestors were the Eyre family.

Among her ancestors, Margaret discovered Christopher Pegge (1565–1627), her 10x great grandfather, born in Shirley, South Derbyshire. He married a Jane Eyre of Hassop Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire. The Eyres were probably the most influential family in the county at one time. They originally came over from Normandy with William the Conqueror, and settled in Hope in Derbyshire. Robert le Eyre was made hereditary warden of the Royal Forests in the area, and by the medieval period his descendants were lords of various local manors. The family seat was at Highlow Hall in Hathersage, and in Tudor times Sir Robert Eyre built seven more halls for his sons – one of which, North Lees Hall, is said to have been used by Charlotte Brontë as the model for Thornfield in Jane Eyre (1847). The author perhaps also used one of the historical Jane’s descendants as the inspiration for her novel. (Claire Vaughan)