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Charlotte Brontë

1816 - 1855

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Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which she published under the gender neutral pen name Currer Bell. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charlotte Brontë has received more than 6,049,658 page views. Her biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Charlotte Brontë is the 136th most popular writer (up from 139th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 98th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Writer.

Charlotte Bronte is most famous for her novel Jane Eyre.

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  • 74.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 82

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charlotte Brontë ranks 136 out of 5,755. Before her are Guy de Maupassant, August Strindberg, Carlo Collodi, Günter Grass, Charles Baudelaire, and Rudyard Kipling. After her are Catullus, Tove Jansson, William Blake, H. G. Wells, Kālidāsa, and Mikhail Bulgakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Charlotte Brontë ranks 1. After her are Werner von Siemens, Carl Zeiss, Arthur de Gobineau, Eugène Edine Pottier, Maria Theresa of Austria, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Paul Reuter, Abbas I of Egypt, Antoine Béchamp, Carl Ludwig, and 10th Dalai Lama. Among people deceased in 1855, Charlotte Brontë ranks 4. Before her are Carl Friedrich Gauss, Søren Kierkegaard, and Nicholas I of Russia. After her are Adam Mickiewicz, Gérard de Nerval, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Adelaide of Austria, Pavel Nakhimov, François Rude, Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg, and François Magendie.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charlotte Brontë ranks 102 out of 7,765. Before her are George V (1865), William Harvey (1578), Paul McCartney (1942), Henry VI of England (1421), George Stephenson (1781), and Ian McKellen (1939). After her are Liam Neeson (1952), Elizabeth Taylor (1932), Diana, Princess of Wales (1961), Edward VII (1841), Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), and William Blake (1757).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Charlotte Brontë ranks 13. Before her are Daniel Defoe (1660), Virginia Woolf (1882), Lewis Carroll (1832), Mary Shelley (1797), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), and Walter Scott (1771). After her are William Blake (1757), H. G. Wells (1866), Aldous Huxley (1894), Emily Brontë (1818), Ian Fleming (1908), and Arthur C. Clarke (1917).

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