WRITER

Anna Sewell

1820 - 1878

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Anna Sewell (; 30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) was an English novelist who wrote the 1877 novel Black Beauty, her only published work. It is considered one of the top ten best-selling novels for children, although the author intended it for adults. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Sewell has received more than 577,932 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Anna Sewell is the 3,310th most popular writer (down from 2,724th in 2019), the 2,382nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,069th in 2019) and the 271st most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 580k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anna Sewell ranks 3,310 out of 7,302. Before her are Angel Wagenstein, Abdullah Goran, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Salvador Espriu, Bernard-Marie Koltès, and Peter Mayle. After her are Bernhard Grzimek, Nossis, Alexander Dukhnovych, Enrique Vila-Matas, Ibn Warraq, and Igor Gouzenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Anna Sewell ranks 45. Before her are Reinhart Dozy, Gustave Le Gray, Sergey Solovyov, Cornelius Gurlitt, Josef Mánes, and Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. After her are Mkrtich Khrimian, Ghevont Alishan, Fanny Crosby, Thuwaini bin Said, Arvid Posse, and György Klapka. Among people deceased in 1878, Anna Sewell ranks 38. Before her are Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao, Karl Gutzkow, Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Mohammed bin Thani, Temistocle Solera, and Andreas von Ettingshausen. After her are George Cruikshank, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, Crawford Long, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Josip Runjanin, and Eugène Belgrand.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anna Sewell ranks 2,382 out of 8,785. Before her are Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (1261), Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406), Ælfgifu of Northampton (990), Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964), Jamie Vardy (1987), and Peter Mayle (1939). After her are Mary McAleese (1951), Henry Ireton (1611), Herbert James Draper (1863), John Mahoney (1940), Thomas Blake Glover (1838), and Alexander Gordon Laing (1794).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anna Sewell ranks 271. Before her are Ford Madox Ford (1873), Arnold Bennett (1867), Paul Johnson (1928), Frances Burney (1752), John Brunner (1934), and Peter Mayle (1939). After her are Arnold Wesker (1932), David Crystal (1941), John Ford (1586), Vera Brittain (1893), William Hope Hodgson (1877), and Charles Lamb (1775).

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