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Edith Sitwell

1887 - 1964

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Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edith Sitwell has received more than 652,699 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Edith Sitwell is the 4,631st most popular writer (down from 4,371st in 2019), the 3,498th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,340th in 2019) and the 397th most popular British Writer.

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  • 650k

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  • 46.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edith Sitwell ranks 4,631 out of 5,755Before her are Julie Garwood, Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Patrick Rothfuss, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Len Deighton, and Vitaliano Brancati. After her are Philippe Néricault Destouches, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, Georg Calixtus, Cynewulf, Erico Verissimo, and Jan Kasprowicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Edith Sitwell ranks 195Before her are Jamini Roy, Alfonso Calzolari, René Maran, Amadeo García, Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, and Rudolph Lewis. After her are Walter Johnson, Carl Blegen, Rudolph Schindler, Teodor Koskenniemi, Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, and Charles Reisner. Among people deceased in 1964, Edith Sitwell ranks 143Before her are Lauge Koch, Henri Grégoire, Eddie Cantor, Lillian Copeland, Eberardo Villalobos, and Felisberto Hernández. After her are John Eke, Paul A. Baran, Axel Norling, Theodore Freeman, Ville Pörhölä, and Hermann Barrelet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edith Sitwell ranks 3,498 out of 7,765Before her are Seán Lester (1888), Ben Chaplin (1969), Len Deighton (1929), Trevor Taylor (1936), Robin Milner (1934), and Christopher Cazenove (1943). After her are Jamie Bell (1986), Cilla Black (1943), Cynewulf (900), James Corden (1978), Graham Gouldman (1946), and Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Edith Sitwell ranks 397Before her are Richard Bentley (1662), Brian Lumley (1937), Eleanor Farjeon (1881), W. S. Gilbert (1836), Elizabeth Goudge (1900), and Len Deighton (1929). After her are Cynewulf (900), Margery Allingham (1904), John Lyly (1554), Helen Fielding (1958), M. R. James (1862), and Thomas Dekker (1572).