WRITER

Edith Durham

1863 - 1944

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Mary Edith Durham, (8 December 1863 – 15 November 1944) was a British artist, anthropologist and writer who is best known for her anthropological accounts of life in Albania in the early 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edith Durham has received more than 150,270 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Edith Durham is the 3,558th most popular writer (down from 3,333rd in 2019), the 2,546th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,471st in 2019) and the 290th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
2007
Through the Lands of the Serb
2018
Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
2007
High Albania
1909
The Burden of the Balkans
2018
The Struggle for Scutari
2018

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edith Durham ranks 3,558 out of 7,302. Before her are Charles Malik, Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, Gene Wolfe, Angelos Sikelianos, Natsuo Kirino, and Tōson Shimazaki. After her are Joss Whedon, Oppian, Jorge de Montemor, Louis Adamic, Altaf Hussain Hali, and George Gissing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Edith Durham ranks 100. Before her are Richard F. Outcault, Augusto B. Leguía, Lucien Pissarro, Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Francis Younghusband, and Władysław Horodecki. After her are Lyubomir Miletich, Alfred Perot, Milka Ternina, Bob Fitzsimmons, C. Aubrey Smith, and Ljubomir Davidović. Among people deceased in 1944, Edith Durham ranks 211. Before her are Ralph H. Fowler, Árpád Weisz, Vladimir Baranov-Rossine, Tatyana Baramzina, Leonid Mandelstam, and Andrey Toshev. After her are Aino Ackté, Adam von Trott zu Solz, Dénes Kőnig, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau, Isabelino Gradín, and Erich Marcks.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edith Durham ranks 2,546 out of 8,785. Before her are Barry Jackson (1938), Leslie Stephen (1832), John Thaw (1942), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), Dominic Purcell (1970), and Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878). After her are Blanche of England (1392), Philip Stone (1924), Simon Le Bon (1958), George Gissing (1857), James Galway (1939), and Frederick Scott Archer (1813).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Edith Durham ranks 290. Before her are David C. H. Austin (1926), Andrew Lang (1844), William Cowper (1731), Henri Alleg (1921), Edwin Arnold (1832), and Leslie Stephen (1832). After her are George Gissing (1857), Graham Hancock (1950), I. A. Richards (1893), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), and William Robertson Smith (1846).

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