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Beatrix Potter

1866 - 1943

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Helen Beatrix Heelis (née Potter; 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943), usually known as Beatrix Potter ( BEE-ə-triks), was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. She is best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which was her first commercially published work in 1902. Her books, including The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck and The Tale of Tom Kitten, have sold more than 250 million copies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Beatrix Potter has received more than 6,429,392 page views. Her biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Beatrix Potter is the 733rd most popular writer (down from 497th in 2019), the 566th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 389th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Writer.

Beatrix Potter is most famous for her children's books, Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, and The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Beatrix Potter ranks 733 out of 7,302. Before her are Alejo Carpentier, Christopher Tolkien, Edmond Rostand, Arthur Adamov, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, and Amin Maalouf. After her are Cao Xueqin, Walter Raleigh, Sidonius Apollinaris, Otto of Freising, Georg Büchner, and Pierre Boulle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Beatrix Potter ranks 18. Before her are Aby Warburg, Hans von Seeckt, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Charles Nicolle, Ferruccio Busoni, and Jacinto Benavente. After her are Lev Shestov, Anne Sullivan, Ramsay MacDonald, Nathan Söderblom, Emilio De Bono, and Mykhailo Hrushevsky. Among people deceased in 1943, Beatrix Potter ranks 23. Before her are Alexandre Millerand, Nikolai Vavilov, Max Wertheimer, Alexandre Yersin, Maurice Denis, and Julius Fučík. After her are Gustav Vigeland, Max Reinhardt, Jean Moulin, Leslie Howard, Etty Hillesum, and Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Beatrix Potter ranks 566 out of 8,785. Before her are Bill Nighy (1949), Hugh Laurie (1959), James Parkinson (1755), Christopher Tolkien (1924), Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), and Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969). After her are Walter Raleigh (1554), Archibald Hill (1886), Eadwig (940), Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771), Alec Douglas-Home (1903), and Malcolm Young (1953).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Beatrix Potter ranks 64. Before her are Ian McEwan (1948), Douglas Adams (1952), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), Oliver Sacks (1933), Geoffrey of Monmouth (1090), and Christopher Tolkien (1924). After her are Walter Raleigh (1554), A. J. Cronin (1896), Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809), William McMaster Murdoch (1873), Eleanor Marx (1855), and Thomas Hardy (1840).

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