WRITER

Clara Reeve

1729 - 1807

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Clara Reeve (23 January 1729 – 3 December 1807) was an English novelist best known for the Gothic novel The Old English Baron (1777). She also wrote an innovative history of prose fiction, The Progress of Romance (1785). Her first work was a translation from Latin, at the time a language unusual for a woman to learn. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clara Reeve has received more than 100,772 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Clara Reeve is the 5,201st most popular writer (down from 4,916th in 2019), the 3,891st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,791st in 2019) and the 438th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Clara Reeve ranks 5,201 out of 7,302Before her are Donald Rayfield, John Farey Sr., Gesualdo Bufalino, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, Rita Mae Brown, and Solomana Kante. After her are Christian Matras, Sam Lake, Lester del Rey, David McKee, Miklós Jósika, and Nikolai Pogodin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Clara Reeve ranks 30Before her are Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Giuseppe Parini, Michael Denis, Ivan Argunov, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, and Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe. After her are Fyodor Volkov, Josiah Bartlett, and Thomas Percy. Among people deceased in 1807, Clara Reeve ranks 27Before her are Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Joseph Brant, Jean-François Rewbell, Johann III Bernoulli, Mikhail Kheraskov, and Oliver Ellsworth. After her are Louise du Pierry, Abraham Baldwin, Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, John Opie, and Alexander Martin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Clara Reeve ranks 3,891 out of 8,785Before her are Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866), Nicola Sturgeon (1970), John Ogdon (1937), Tommy Green (1894), Stuart McCall (1964), and Lambert Simnel (1477). After her are Ken Wharton (1916), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (1000), Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife (1849), Mark Owen (1972), and Princess Sophia of Gloucester (1773).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Clara Reeve ranks 438Before her are Jonathan Stroud (1970), Anne V. Coates (1925), Elizabeth Goudge (1900), Nicholas Culpeper (1616), Donald Rayfield (1942), and John Farey Sr. (1766). After her are David McKee (1935), Bob Shaw (1931), George Crabbe (1754), Ælfric of Eynsham (955), Thomas Love Peacock (1785), and Edward Carpenter (1844).