WRITER

Dorothy Richardson

1873 - 1957

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Dorothy Miller Richardson (17 May 1873 – 17 June 1957) was a British author and journalist. Author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 semi-autobiographical novels published between 1915 and 1967—though Richardson saw them as chapters of one work—she was one of the earliest modernist novelists to use stream of consciousness as a narrative technique. Richardson also emphasises in Pilgrimage the importance and distinct nature of female experiences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothy Richardson has received more than 207,912 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Dorothy Richardson is the 6,259th most popular writer (down from 5,690th in 2019), the 5,298th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,932nd in 2019) and the 601st most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Backwater
1916
Honeycomb
Women, Fiction
1917
Pilgrimage
English Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Social life and customs
1938
The tunnel
Women, Fiction, English literature
1919
Interim
Women, Fiction
1919
Pointed Roofs. Pilgrimage
Women, Fiction, English literature
1915

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dorothy Richardson ranks 6,259 out of 7,302. Before her are Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Akif Pirinçci, R. C. Sherriff, Studs Terkel, Michael Chabon, and Alex Yermolinsky. After her are Aleksandar Hemon, Philip G. Epstein, Matti Yrjänä Joensuu, Derek Taylor, Lauren Weisberger, and Renata Viganò.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Dorothy Richardson ranks 198. Before her are Herbert Roper Barrett, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, Charles Avery, Leonid Leonidov, and Dmitry Ushakov. After her are Louisa Garrett Anderson, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Ellen Glasgow, Gauhar Jaan, Sara Josephine Baker, and August Rodenberg. Among people deceased in 1957, Dorothy Richardson ranks 216. Before her are Gene Lockhart, Joyce Cary, Reginald Aldworth Daly, Jorge Sarmiento, Nico Bouvy, and Clarence Walker. After her are Harry Watson, Leopold Löwenheim, Leo Goodwin, Charles Brabin, Bedřich Šupčík, and Nils Silfverskiöld.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dorothy Richardson ranks 5,298 out of 8,785. Before her are Alexander Hall (1880), George Peacock (1791), Ron Staniforth (1924), Darren Shahlavi (1972), Harriet Harman (1950), and Constant Lambert (1905). After her are Joe Meek (1929), Sophia Myles (1980), Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873), Derek Taylor (1932), Keiran Lee (1984), and William Nicholson (1872).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Dorothy Richardson ranks 601. Before her are William Empson (1906), Barbara Pym (1913), Helen Bannerman (1862), Alfred Domett (1811), Thomas Heywood (1574), and R. C. Sherriff (1896). After her are Derek Taylor (1932), George Farquhar (1677), Howard Jacobson (1942), Dorothy Wordsworth (1771), Caroline Norton (1808), and Charlotte Smith (1749).

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