WRITER

Caroline Norton

1808 - 1877

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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (née Sheridan; 22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an active English social reformer and author. She left her husband, who was accused by many of coercive behaviour, in 1836. Her husband then sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, then the Whig Prime Minister, for criminal conversation (adultery). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Caroline Norton has received more than 328,439 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Caroline Norton is the 6,278th most popular writer, the 5,347th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 606th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Caroline Norton ranks 6,278 out of 7,302. Before her are Róža Domašcyna, Lloyd C. Douglas, Dorothy Wordsworth, Tillie Olsen, Fareed Zakaria, and Ben Okri. After her are John Clellon Holmes, Alexei Panshin, Charlotte Smith, Polly Samson, Rami Saari, and P. C. Cast.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Caroline Norton ranks 72. Before her are Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Wendela Hebbe, Hugh Falconer, Teréz Karacs, John Hutton Balfour, and Juan Crisóstomo Torrico. After her are John Scott Russell, Hugh McCulloch, Samuel Dakin, and James Gall. Among people deceased in 1877, Caroline Norton ranks 68. Before her are Henry Monnier, Anthimus VI of Constantinople, Karl Ludwig Littrow, Facundo Machaín, Filippo Parlatore, and Elizabeth F. Ellet. After her is Toru Dutt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Caroline Norton ranks 5,347 out of 8,785. Before her are Steve Lillywhite (1955), Ron Flowers (1934), Amanda Holden (1971), James Maynard (1987), Adrian Alston (1949), and Harry Pollitt (1890). After her are Ian Wallace (1946), Charlotte Smith (1749), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (1967), Clare Higgins (1955), Shaun Evans (1980), and Polly Samson (1962).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Caroline Norton ranks 606. Before her are R. C. Sherriff (1896), Dorothy Richardson (1873), Derek Taylor (1932), George Farquhar (1677), Howard Jacobson (1942), and Dorothy Wordsworth (1771). After her are Charlotte Smith (1749), Polly Samson (1962), Naomi Mitchison (1897), Lascelles Abercrombie (1881), Caryl Churchill (1938), and Joanna Baillie (1762).

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