WRITER

Charlotte Brontë

1816 - 1855

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Charlotte Nicholls (née Brontë; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ), 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 male pseudonym Currer Bell. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charlotte Brontë has received more than 6,530,765 page views. Her biography is available in 87 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Charlotte Brontë is the 122nd most popular writer (up from 136th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 102nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Writer.

Charlotte Bronte is most famous for her novel Jane Eyre.

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  • 6.5M

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  • 79.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 87

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charlotte Brontë ranks 122 out of 7,302. Before her are Federico García Lorca, Anatole France, Jean Cocteau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Bukowski, and Ivo Andrić. After her are Lewis Carroll, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Verlaine, François Villon, and Alexandre Dumas fils.

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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, Paul Reuter, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Abbas I of Egypt, Carl Ludwig, Franz Sacher, and John Frederick Kensett. 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, Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure, François Rude, and Maria Theresa of Austria.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charlotte Brontë ranks 76 out of 8,785. Before her are James Clerk Maxwell (1831), Edward Heath (1916), Ridley Scott (1937), John Dee (1527), George III of the United Kingdom (1738), and David Bowie (1947). After her are Lewis Carroll (1832), Alfred the Great (849), George VI (1895), Elton John (1947), J. M. W. Turner (1775), and Edward VI of England (1537).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Charlotte Brontë ranks 10. Before her are Charles Dickens (1812), Jane Austen (1775), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Daniel Defoe (1660), Emily Brontë (1818), and Virginia Woolf (1882). After her are Lewis Carroll (1832), Mary Shelley (1797), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), Terry Pratchett (1948), and H. G. Wells (1866).

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