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Edward Lear

1812 - 1888

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Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; and as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Lear has received more than 1,137,459 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Edward Lear is the 1,735th most popular writer (down from 1,539th in 2019), the 1,369th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,204th in 2019) and the 146th most popular British Writer.

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  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edward Lear ranks 1,735 out of 5,755. Before him are Sophie de Condorcet, Jurji Zaydan, Pierre Plantard, Constantijn Huygens, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, and Horacio Quiroga. After him are João de Barros, Mór Jókai, Malcolm Lowry, Eupolis, Anonymus, and Banine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Edward Lear ranks 24. Before him are Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Robert Browning, Natalia Pushkina, Paul Abadie, Zuo Zongtang, and Pertevniyal Sultan. After him are Édouard Séguin, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, Ilija Garašanin, Henry Wilson, and Zygmunt Krasiński. Among people deceased in 1888, Edward Lear ranks 27. Before him are Elizabeth Stride, Annie Chapman, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Catherine Eddowes, and Namık Kemal. After him are Princess Marie Amelie of Baden, Princess Helena of Nassau, Charles Cros, Philip Sheridan, Dora d'Istria, and Jean-Marie Guyau.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Lear ranks 1,369 out of 7,765. Before him are Tom Pryce (1949), Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623), Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799), John Toshack (1949), Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (1936), and Samuel Wallis (1728). After him are Dennis Nilsen (1945), Malcolm Lowry (1909), Thomas Sydenham (1624), Frank Lampard (1978), Neville Marriner (1924), and Thomas Browne (1605).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Edward Lear ranks 146. Before him are Seamus Heaney (1939), Walafrid Strabo (808), John Gay (1685), Joseph Addison (1672), Alma Reville (1899), and Arthur Machen (1863). After him are Malcolm Lowry (1909), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), Thomas Wyatt (1503), Peter Shaffer (1926), Aphra Behn (1640), and Anne Perry (1938).

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