WRITER

Barbara Cartland

1901 - 2000

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Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000), known as the Queen of Romance, was an English writer who published both contemporary and historical romance novels, the latter set primarily during the Victorian or Edwardian period. Cartland is one of the best-selling authors worldwide of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Cartland has received more than 1,636,780 page views. Her biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Barbara Cartland is the 1,673rd most popular writer (down from 1,613th in 2019), the 1,284th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,291st in 2019) and the 147th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Barbara Cartland ranks 1,673 out of 7,302. Before her are Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Martin Opitz, Edward Lear, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Upton Sinclair, and Martin Walser. After her are Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Konstantin Paustovsky, Basil Valentine, Jules Romains, Fredric Jameson, and Albert Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Barbara Cartland ranks 87. Before her are Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Souvanna Phouma, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Chen Yi, Nina Berberova, and Hendrik Verwoerd. After her are Franciszek Gajowniczek, Nicola Abbagnano, J. D. Bernal, Maxwell D. Taylor, Stella Adler, and George Gallup. Among people deceased in 2000, Barbara Cartland ranks 69. Before her are Giorgio Bassani, Hirokazu Ninomiya, Keizō Obuchi, Noboru Takeshita, Don Budge, and Kemal Sunal. After her are Maurice Richard, Pierre Plantard, Baden Powell, Franck Pourcel, Ahmet Kaya, and Claude Sautet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Barbara Cartland ranks 1,284 out of 8,785. Before her are Mark Sykes (1879), Shirley Bassey (1937), Thomas Gresham (1519), Edward Lear (1812), Mary Leakey (1913), and Alexander I of Scotland (1078). After her are John Horton Conway (1937), Clive Owen (1964), Martin Frobisher (1535), Julian Glover (1935), Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773), and Albert Hammond (1944).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Barbara Cartland ranks 147. Before her are Robert Faurisson (1929), A. S. Byatt (1936), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), Joseph Needham (1900), Walafrid Strabo (808), and Edward Lear (1812). After her are Branwell Brontë (1817), Lucinda Riley (1965), Arthur Machen (1863), Anne Perry (1938), Ted Hughes (1930), and Malcolm Lowry (1909).

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