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Catharine Macaulay

1731 - 1791

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Catharine Macaulay (née Sawbridge, later Graham; 23 March 1731 – 22 June 1791) was a famed English Whig historian. She was the first Englishwoman to become an historian and during her lifetime the world's only published female historian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Catharine Macaulay has received more than 242,119 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Catharine Macaulay is the 475th most popular historian, the 4,138th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 51st most popular British Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Catharine Macaulay ranks 475 out of 561. Before her are Zhao Rukuo, Timofey Granovsky, Charles Homer Haskins, Nikolaus Pevsner, Rudolph Rummel, and Anvar Chingizoglu. After her are Sara Ashurbeyli, Christopher Browning, Samuel Eliot Morison, Firishta, Alfred W. Crosby, and N. G. L. Hammond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1731, Catharine Macaulay ranks 21. Before her are William Cowper, Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Charles Lee, Victor Louis, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, and Benjamin Banneker. After her are Johann August Ephraim Goeze, Samuel Huntington, and Robert Treat Paine. Among people deceased in 1791, Catharine Macaulay ranks 18. Before her are Besiki, Francesca Lebrun, Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Johan Andreas Murray, Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Richard Price. After her are Anna Louisa Karsch, Francis Hopkinson, and Benjamin Harrison V.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Catharine Macaulay ranks 4,138 out of 8,785. Before her are Daniel Oliver (1830), Richard Hoggart (1918), Alan Napier (1903), Herbert Lawford (1851), Eanflæd (626), and Kate Atkinson (1951). After her are Lily James (1989), Archie Stark (1897), William Kirby (1759), William Muir (1819), Ireen Sheer (1949), and Roger Hargreaves (1935).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Catharine Macaulay ranks 51. Before her are Niall Ferguson (1964), David Marshall Lang (1924), Donald Nicol (1923), Richard J. Evans (1947), William Robertson (1721), and Arthur Smith Woodward (1864). After her are N. G. L. Hammond (1907), William of Newburgh (1130), Richard Overy (1947), Kenneth Clark (1903), Henry James Sumner Maine (1822), and Orlando Figes (1959).

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