WRITER

Alfred Austin

1835 - 1913

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Alfred Austin (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour. It was claimed that he was being rewarded for his support for the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury in the General Election of 1895. Austin's poems are little remembered today, his most popular work being prose idylls celebrating nature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Austin has received more than 122,756 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Alfred Austin is the 6,389th most popular writer (down from 6,048th in 2019), the 5,562nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,630th in 2019) and the 635th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Lamia's winter-quarters
Description and travel
1898
Flodden Field
Drama, Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513
1903
The human tragedy
1876
Country House Murders
Country homes, Fiction, Country life
Contains: [Adventure of the Abbey Grange](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17084226W/Adventure_of_the_Abbey_Grange) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A marriage tragedy / Wilkie Collins Lord Chizelrigg's missing fortune / Robert Barr The Fordwych Castle mystery / Emmuska, Baroness Orczy The blue scarab / R. Austin Freeman The doom of the Darnaways / G. K. Chesterton The shadow on the glass / Agatha Christie The queen's square / Dorothy L. Sayers Death on the air / Ngaio Marsh The same to us / Margery Allingham The hunt ball / Freeman Wills Crofts The incautious burglar / John Dickson Carr The long shot / Nicholas Blake. Jeeves and the stolen Venus / P. G. Wodehouse Death in the sun / Michael Innes An unlocked window / Ethel Lina White The wood-for-the-trees / Philip MacDonald The man on the roof / Christianna Brand The death of Amy Robsart / Cyril Hare Fen Hall / Ruth Rendell A very desirable residence / P. D. James The Worcester enigma / James Miles.
1989
The garden that I love
1894
The autobiography of Alfred Austin, poet laureate, 1835-1910
1911

Page views of Alfred Austins by language

Over the past year Alfred Austin has had the most page views in the with 14,737 views, followed by French (824), and Russian (610). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (116.46%), Hindi (50.20%), and Persian (44.93%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alfred Austin ranks 6,389 out of 7,302. Before him are Raúl Rivero, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Steve Sem-Sandberg, Linda Woolverton, Graciano Rocchigiani, and Raif Badawi. After him are Sonja Åkesson, Oles Buzina, Marit Paulsen, Anne-Marie Garat, George Peele, and Barry Unsworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Alfred Austin ranks 92. Before him are Vítězslav Hálek, Lyman Abbott, Rebecca Latimer Felton, John La Farge, Fitzhugh Lee, and Émile Léonard Mathieu. After him is Emily Faithfull. Among people deceased in 1913, Alfred Austin ranks 93. Before him are Emma Schenson, Frederick Holman, George Finnegan, Alphonse Kirchhoffer, Daniel David Palmer, and Robert Collett. After him are Walter Rutherford, E. Pauline Johnson, Alfred Lyttelton, and Joaquin Miller.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alfred Austin ranks 5,562 out of 8,785. Before him are Miles Malleson (1888), Tom Chaplin (1979), George K. Arthur (1899), Brian Murphy (1932), Peter Broadbent (1933), and Terry Griffiths (1947). After him are Alex McLeish (1959), Pat Fry (1964), Peter Giles (1944), William Allen (1532), Ron Springett (1935), and Michael Park (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Alfred Austin ranks 635. Before him are Charles Lock Eastlake (1793), Michael Rosen (1946), Henry Green (1905), Christopher Fry (1907), Thomas Lodge (1558), and H. R. F. Keating (1926). After him are George Peele (1556), Barry Unsworth (1930), Mary Berry (1935), Thomas Percy (1729), Frances Wright (1795), and Thomas Hood (1799).

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