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Aphra Behn

1640 - 1689

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Aphra Behn (; bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aphra Behn has received more than 1,069,675 page views. Her biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Aphra Behn is the 1,783rd most popular writer (down from 1,266th in 2019), the 1,404th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 987th in 2019) and the 151st most popular British Writer.

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  • 56.18

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  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aphra Behn ranks 1,783 out of 5,755. Before her are Bernard Malamud, Theodor Nöldeke, Viktor Barna, André Brink, György Konrád, and Elvira Madigan. After her are Ion of Chios, Robert Silverberg, Anne Perry, Telesilla, Hugh Lofting, and John of Ephesus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, Aphra Behn ranks 10. Before her are Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, La Voisin, Pu Songling, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, and Gaspar Sanz. After her are Philippe de La Hire, Antoine Coysevox, Abraham Mignon, Mariana Alcoforado, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, and Willem de Vlamingh. Among people deceased in 1689, Aphra Behn ranks 9. Before her are Marie Louise d’Orléans, Aşub Sultan, Sambhaji, Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria, Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, and Thomas Sydenham. After her are Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Pjetër Bogdani, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Khushal Khattak, Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Kazimierz Łyszczyński.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Aphra Behn ranks 1,404 out of 7,765. Before her are Tom Courtenay (1937), Gemma Jones (1942), Ken Russell (1927), Peter Mayhew (1944), William Sturgeon (1783), and Stevie Young (1956). After her are Simon Stock (1164), Anne Perry (1938), Hugh Lofting (1886), Patrick Head (1946), William Caxton (1422), and Andy Summers (1942).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Aphra Behn ranks 151. Before her are Arthur Machen (1863), Edward Lear (1812), Malcolm Lowry (1909), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), Thomas Wyatt (1503), and Peter Shaffer (1926). After her are Anne Perry (1938), Hugh Lofting (1886), William Caxton (1422), Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), Brian Aldiss (1925), and Christopher Isherwood (1904).

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