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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 148,465 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Amelia Edwards is the 4,329th most popular writer (up from 4,711th in 2019), the 3,200th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,755th in 2019) and the 367th most popular British Writer.

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  • 150k

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  • 47.61

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.28

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  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Amelia Edwards ranks 4,329 out of 5,755Before her are Norman Vincent Peale, Johannes Linnankoski, Stefano Benni, Martin Kukučín, Karim Findi, and Nikolay Zabolotsky. After her are Jane Wilde, R. J. Palacio, Feodor Gladkov, Constantin Negruzzi, Hanna Krall, and Yuri Bondarev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Amelia Edwards ranks 76Before her are José Evaristo Uriburu, Gustav Radde, Ippolito Nievo, Georg Sauerwein, Paul du Bois-Reymond, and Edward Routh. After her are Frederick Townsend Ward, Heinrich von Stephan, Fran Levstik, John Bell Hood, Peter Tait, and George Nares. Among people deceased in 1892, Amelia Edwards ranks 56Before her are Eduard August von Regel, Archibald Scott Couper, Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, Caroline Harrison, Henri Duveyrier, and Pashko Vasa. After her are Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg, James B. Francis, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, Jay Gould, José María Castro Madriz, and John Pope.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Amelia Edwards ranks 3,200 out of 7,765Before her are Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), Charles Lee (1731), Robert W. Paul (1869), Adrian Boult (1889), Bob Anderson (1922), and Clint Mansell (1963). After her are James B. Francis (1815), John Lennard-Jones (1894), Bob Shaw (1931), William Hallowes Miller (1801), Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk (1893), and Bert Jansch (1943).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Amelia Edwards ranks 367Before her are Clare Hollingworth (1911), Robert Kerr (1755), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844), Alan Bennett (1934), Thomas Middleton (1580), and Stephen Baxter (1957). After her are Bob Shaw (1931), John Mawe (1764), Isaac Watts (1674), Walter Savage Landor (1775), Edwin Atherstone (1788), and Anne Bradstreet (1612).