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Angela Carter

1940 - 1992

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Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, née Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. She is mainly known for her book The Bloody Chamber (1979). In 1984, her short story "The Company of Wolves" was adapted into a film of the same name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Angela Carter has received more than 1,286,732 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Angela Carter is the 2,963rd most popular writer (down from 2,715th in 2019), the 2,166th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,065th in 2019) and the 245th most popular British Writer.

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  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Angela Carter ranks 2,963 out of 7,302. Before her are Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Anne Carson, Jean Echenoz, José Martínez Ruiz, Morris West, and James Rollins. After her are Louise Weiss, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Robert Burton, Anvari, Olha Kobylianska, and François Cheng.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Angela Carter ranks 220. Before her are Gigi Proietti, Marcelino Martínez, Franz Müntefering, David Koch, Wim Ruska, and Manuel Ojeda. After her are Silvio Marzolini, Ken Jenkins, Clive Sinclair, Aracy Balabanian, Kishin Shinoyama, and Quentin Skinner. Among people deceased in 1992, Angela Carter ranks 124. Before her are Ernst Schäfer, Gustav Lombard, Farag Foda, Nie Rongzhen, Emilio Recoba, and Willie Dixon. After her are Rihei Sano, František Tomášek, Giovanni Colombo, Richard Hartshorne, Juanito, and Sándor Veress.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Angela Carter ranks 2,166 out of 8,785. Before her are Thomas Otway (1652), Claude Choules (1901), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), J. F. C. Fuller (1878), Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874), and William Kingdon Clifford (1845). After her are Robert Burton (1577), Naomie Harris (1976), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), Wendy Hiller (1912), John Needham (1713), and E. H. Shepard (1879).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Angela Carter ranks 245. Before her are Walter Pater (1839), Dodie Smith (1896), Jack Higgins (1929), David Gemmell (1948), Charles Kingsley (1819), and Thomas Otway (1652). After her are Robert Burton (1577), Richard Baxter (1615), Wilfred Owen (1893), John Cleland (1709), Lytton Strachey (1880), and Caroline Graham (1931).

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