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Edmund Gosse

1849 - 1928

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Sir Edmund William Gosse (; 21 September 1849 – 16 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Gosse has received more than 193,708 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Edmund Gosse is the 5,583rd most popular writer (down from 5,079th in 2019), the 4,685th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,412th in 2019) and the 529th most popular British Writer.

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  • 20

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  • 2.57

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  • 3.29

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edmund Gosse ranks 5,583 out of 5,755Before him are Anna Haava, Beryl Bainbridge, Christian Kracht, Roma Ryan, Madhukar, and Frank Harris. After him are Chaz Bono, Lloyd C. Douglas, Tom Brokaw, Mikhail Gurevich, Sida Košutić, and Su Tong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Edmund Gosse ranks 99Before him are José Manuel Pando, Alfhild Agrell, Abbott Handerson Thayer, August Palm, Horace Lamb, and William R. Day. After him are Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin and Edwin Lord Weeks. Among people deceased in 1928, Edmund Gosse ranks 107Before him are James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Antonín Sova, Karl Röderer, Gunnar Knudsen, George Dole, and Lewis Howard Latimer. After him are George Siegmann, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Johan Olin, Nora Bayes, and Crystal Eastman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Gosse ranks 4,685 out of 7,765Before him are Beryl Bainbridge (1932), Clive Bunker (1946), Roma Ryan (1950), Mark Jones (1933), David Mackenzie (1966), and Edgar Syers (1863). After him are Justin Wilson (1978), George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823), Geoffrey Unsworth (1914), John Smith (1938), Jodie Comer (1993), and Andrea Arnold (1961).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Edmund Gosse ranks 529Before him are Eliza Acton (1799), Thomas Hood (1799), Margaret Oliphant (1828), Brian Moore (1921), Beryl Bainbridge (1932), and Roma Ryan (1950). After him are Ernest Dowson (1867), John Barbour (1316), Dick King-Smith (1922), John Skelton (1460), John Betjeman (1906), and Anna Löwenstein (1951).