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Amelia Edwards

1831 - 1892

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Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (7 June 1831 – 15 April 1892), also known as Amelia B. Edwards, was an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist. Her literary successes included the ghost story The Phantom Coach (1864), the novels Barbara's History (1864) and Lord Brackenbury (1880), and the travelogue of Egypt A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877). She also edited a poetry anthology published in 1878. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amelia Edwards has received more than 163,042 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Amelia Edwards is the 4,946th most popular writer (down from 4,316th in 2019), the 3,602nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,192nd in 2019) and the 412th most popular British Writer.

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  • 160k

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  • 54.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Amelia Edwards ranks 4,946 out of 7,302. Before her are José Eduardo Agualusa, Greg Egan, Régine Deforges, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, Iakob Tsurtaveli, and Adolf Friedrich von Schack. After her are Giovanni Berchet, Märta Tikkanen, Mira Lobe, Mato Kósyk, Mari Jungstedt, and Michel Tremblay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Amelia Edwards ranks 88. Before her are Wilhelm His Sr., Salomon Jadassohn, Ippolito Nievo, Archibald Scott Couper, Paul du Bois-Reymond, and Fran Levstik. After her are Fyodor Bredikhin, Ignatius L. Donnelly, Manuel Antônio de Almeida, Álvares de Azevedo, Lucy Webb Hayes, and John Bell Hood. Among people deceased in 1892, Amelia Edwards ranks 69. Before her are Henri Duveyrier, Fanny Churberg, Robert Franz, Caroline Harrison, John Pope, and Pashko Vasa. After her are Dimitrie Brătianu, Henry Edward Manning, Jay Gould, Alexandre Levy, Dimitrios Valvis, and Georgi Valkovich.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Amelia Edwards ranks 3,602 out of 8,785. Before her are Eric Brook (1907), John Paul Young (1950), Edward Pigott (1753), Doug Bradley (1954), Kay Kendall (1927), and John Taylor (1808). After her are Phil Neal (1951), Ken Stott (1954), Bill Roberts (1912), Pat Barker (1943), Jimmy White (1962), and Aldhelm (639).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Amelia Edwards ranks 412. Before her are Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), Henry of Huntingdon (1080), Jonathan Coe (1961), Richard Bentley (1662), Sam Houser (1972), and Piers Anthony (1934). After her are Pat Barker (1943), Robert Hugh Benson (1871), Thomas Dekker (1572), Richard Hughes (1900), A. E. Housman (1859), and Peter F. Hamilton (1960).

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