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Charlotte Smith

1749 - 1806

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Charlotte Smith (née Turner; (1749-05-04)4 May 1749 – (1806-10-28)28 October 1806) was an English novelist and poet of the School of Sensibility whose Elegiac Sonnets (1784) contributed to the revival of the form in England. She also helped to set conventions for Gothic fiction and wrote political novels of sensibility. Despite ten novels, four children's books and other works, she saw herself mainly as a poet and expected to be remembered for that. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charlotte Smith has received more than 19,171 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Charlotte Smith is the 6,281st most popular writer (down from 5,879th in 2019), the 5,349th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,306th in 2019) and the 607th most popular British Writer.

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  • 42.18

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  • 15

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  • 2.27

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  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charlotte Smith ranks 6,281 out of 7,302. Before her are Tillie Olsen, Fareed Zakaria, Ben Okri, Caroline Norton, John Clellon Holmes, and Alexei Panshin. After her are Polly Samson, Rami Saari, P. C. Cast, Susan Glaspell, Karel Schoeman, and Richard A. Knaak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Charlotte Smith ranks 28. Before her are Christian August Lorentzen, Princess Louisa of Great Britain, John Sims, Charles Wilkins, Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, and Edward Rutledge. After her are Levi Lincoln Sr., William Blount, and Jared Ingersoll. Among people deceased in 1806, Charlotte Smith ranks 50. Before her are Ignaz Schiffermüller, Heinrich Christian Boie, Benjamin Banneker, Rana Bahadur Shah, Robert Morris, and William Paterson. After her are John Graves Simcoe, George Wythe, John Breckinridge, and Elizabeth Carter.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charlotte Smith ranks 5,349 out of 8,785. Before her are Amanda Holden (1971), James Maynard (1987), Adrian Alston (1949), Harry Pollitt (1890), Caroline Norton (1808), and Ian Wallace (1946). After her are Marianne Jean-Baptiste (1967), Clare Higgins (1955), Shaun Evans (1980), Polly Samson (1962), Steve O'Rourke (1940), and Mark Drakeford (1954).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Charlotte Smith ranks 607. Before her are Dorothy Richardson (1873), Derek Taylor (1932), George Farquhar (1677), Howard Jacobson (1942), Dorothy Wordsworth (1771), and Caroline Norton (1808). After her are Polly Samson (1962), Naomi Mitchison (1897), Lascelles Abercrombie (1881), Caryl Churchill (1938), Joanna Baillie (1762), and Humphrey Carpenter (1946).

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