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Concepción Arenal

1820 - 1893

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Concepción Arenal Ponte (Ferrol, 31 January 1820 – Vigo, 4 February 1893) was a graduate in law, thinker, journalist, poet and Galician dramatic author within the literary Realism and pioneer in Spanish feminism. Born in Ferrol, Galicia, she excelled in literature and was the first woman to attend university in Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Concepción Arenal has received more than 70,281 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Concepción Arenal is the 3,683rd most popular writer (down from 3,327th in 2019), the 1,194th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,055th in 2019) and the 132nd most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 70k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

La mujer del porvenir
Women, Social conditions, Women's rights
1916
Cartas a los delincuentes
Administration of Justice, Justice, Administration of, Prisons
1894
El visitador del pobre
Poor, Charity
1913
El pauperismo
Poverty, Social problems, Poor
1897
El visitador del preso
Prisons, Crime and criminals, Criminals
1896
Obras Completas de D. a Concepción Arenal
2022

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Concepción Arenal ranks 3,683 out of 7,302. Before her are William Robertson Smith, Milán Füst, René Huyghe, Berdi Kerbabayev, Nichita Stănescu, and Viktor Nekrasov. After her are Wang Changling, Dmitry Grigorovich, Oksana Zabuzhko, Louise Penny, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, and Peter Rosegger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Concepción Arenal ranks 54. Before her are Fanny Crosby, Thuwaini bin Said, Arvid Posse, György Klapka, Pōmare III, and Georg Curtius. After her are Juan N. Méndez, William Howard Russell, Mariano Melgarejo, Nikolay Girs, Theodoros Diligiannis, and Gillis Bildt. Among people deceased in 1893, Concepción Arenal ranks 55. Before her are Robert Cornelius, Anton von Schmerling, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Jean Dufresne, Georgi Pulevski, and Joseph Hellmesberger Sr.. After her are Ibrahim Edhem Pasha, Adolphe Yvon, Grigory Gagarin, Grigor Parlichev, Aloys Sprenger, and Michał Elwiro Andriolli.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Concepción Arenal ranks 1,194 out of 3,355. Before her are Fernando Trueba (1955), Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1910), Óscar Domínguez (1906), Víctor Muñoz (1957), Vicente López Portaña (1772), and Juan Manuel Lillo (1965). After her are Víctor Balaguer i Cirera (1824), Pedro (1987), Ismail II of Granada (1338), Fernando Llorente (1985), Joaquina Vedruna de Mas (1783), and Enrique Barón Crespo (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Concepción Arenal ranks 132. Before her are Rosa Montero (1951), Gonzalo de Berceo (1197), Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (1856), Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1895), Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda (1862), and Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1910). After her are Lola Anglada (1892), Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916), Ramiro de Maeztu (1875), Carmen Martín Gaite (1925), Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824), and Fernando de Herrera (1534).

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