WRITER

Adelaide Anne Procter

1825 - 1864

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Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist. Her literary career began when she was a teenager, her poems appearing in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round, and later in feminist journals. Her charity work and her conversion to Roman Catholicism influenced her poetry, which deals with such subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women, among whom she performed philanthropic work. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adelaide Anne Procter has received more than 113,695 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Adelaide Anne Procter is the 5,177th most popular writer (up from 5,437th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

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  • 46.98

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The poems of Adelaide A. Procter
A House to Let
English fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, London (england), fiction
A chaplet of verses
The poems of Adelaide A. Procter
Legends and lyrics
Legends and lyrics
English Christian poetry, English poetry

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adelaide Anne Procter ranks 5,177 out of 7,302Before her are Mats Wahl, Elinor Glyn, Anna Brigadere, Furqat, Philippe Néricault Destouches, and John Kaminiates. After her are Alexander Odoevsky, Tony Duvert, Ruth Klüger, Enric Valor i Vives, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, and Ernie Pyle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Adelaide Anne Procter ranks 73Before her are E. Marlitt, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, George Inness, Anton Heinrich Springer, and Aleksey Pleshcheyev. After her are Giuseppe Prinzi, Richard Maack, R. M. Ballantyne, A. P. Hill, Francisco Antonino Vidal, and William McGonagall. Among people deceased in 1864, Adelaide Anne Procter ranks 65Before her are Gonçalves Dias, David Sassoon, Roger B. Taney, Rudolf Wagner, Alexander Vostokov, and José Justo Corro. After her are Jacques Jasmin, John Clare, William T. Anderson, Juris Alunāns, John Sedgwick, and Leonidas Polk.

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