# Aurora Raby — Don Juan character guide

> Aurora Raby in Don Juan by Lord Byron.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Aurora, Little Aurora

**First appearance:** 0019-canto-xiv

## Snapshot

A grave, beautiful Catholic heiress whose quiet dignity and unreadable reserve set her apart from the marriage-market chatter of London society.

## Who they are

Aurora moves through the fashionable world of Canto XVI with an air of stillness that makes the surrounding gossip seem loud and cheap. Orphaned, devout, and self-possessed, she neither pursues nor avoids Juan, and her refusal to perform for the crowd fascinates him precisely because he cannot win her easily. She represents the poem's late glimpse of a sincerity that might, for once, be worth wanting.

## Relationships

### [Don Juan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/characters/don_juan)

_romantic_

Aurora Raby is a pure, Catholic heiress who attracts Don Juan with her beauty and virtue, representing a potential spiritual love.

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