WRITER

Beryl Bainbridge

1932 - 2010

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Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. She won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996, and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Beryl Bainbridge has received more than 329,859 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Beryl Bainbridge is the 6,187th most popular writer (down from 5,559th in 2019), the 5,162nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,669th in 2019) and the 581st most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

An Awfully Big Adventure
Actresses, Teenage girls, Fiction
1989
Watson's apology
Spouses, Uxoricide, Clergy
1984
Sweet William
Fiction in English, Young women, Fiction
1975
The dressmaker
Fiction in English, Women, World War, 1939-1945
1973
The bottle factory outing
1974
Harriet said -
Fiction in English
Beryl Bainbridge's evocation of childhood in a rundown northern holiday resort. An explosive shocker about little girls . . . here is the horror of child's play mixed with erotic manipulation and evil possession. "A highly plotted horror tale that ranks with the celebrated thrillers of corrupt childhood."—New York Times Book Review
1972

Page views of Beryl Bainbridges by language

Over the past year Beryl Bainbridge has had the most page views in the with 39,218 views, followed by Russian (1,777), and French (1,569). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (203.78%), Basque (73.53%), and Bulgarian (64.71%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Beryl Bainbridge ranks 6,187 out of 7,302. Before her are Maria Teresa Horta, Gillian Flynn, Albert Kivikas, Stephen Vincent Benét, Kurt Marti, and Lester Bangs. After her are Alan Hollinghurst, Amory Lovins, Alan Garner, Dmitry Gordon, John Barbour, and Dejan Ajdačić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Beryl Bainbridge ranks 505. Before her are Marguerite Pindling, Robert Spitzer, Joe Arpaio, Anatoli Isayev, Kalevi Hämäläinen, and Antal Bolvári. After her are Robert Reed, Sergio Caprari, Donna Douglas, W. Morgan Sheppard, Andrew Young, and Jake Garn. Among people deceased in 2010, Beryl Bainbridge ranks 410. Before her are Audrey Williamson, Johanna Dohnal, William B. Lenoir, Tom Mankiewicz, Rajeshwari Chatterjee, and Zbigniew Wassermann. After her are Alex Chilton, Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir, Harry Siljander, Janet Simpson, He Pingping, and Ronald Pettersson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Beryl Bainbridge ranks 5,162 out of 8,785. Before her are Jack Wilshere (1992), John Aston Sr. (1921), Richard Doll (1912), John Lynch (1961), Bryan Sykes (1947), and Gracie Fields (1898). After her are Sean Pertwee (1964), Thomas Baines (1820), Peter Glenville (1913), Charles James Napier (1782), Annie Lorrain Smith (1854), and Alan Hollinghurst (1954).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Beryl Bainbridge ranks 581. Before her are John Addington Symonds (1840), E. W. Hornung (1866), Joyce Cary (1888), Philip Massinger (1583), Paul Scott (1920), and Michael Drayton (1563). After her are Alan Hollinghurst (1954), Alan Garner (1934), John Barbour (1316), Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320), Bernice Rubens (1923), and Brian Jacques (1939).

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