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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1806 - 1861

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Barrett Browning has received more than 2,594,306 page views. Her biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Elizabeth Barrett Browning is the 2,413th most popular writer (down from 2,244th in 2019), the 1,787th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,739th in 2019) and the 193rd most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Diary by E.B.B
Diaries, English Poets
1969
Sonnets from the Portuguese
English Sonnets, English Love poetry, Correspondence
1896
Aurora Leigh
Aurora Leigh (Browning, Elizabeth Barrett)
1850
Poetical works
Accessible book
1800
The letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Accessible book, Correspondence, Corrrespondence
1897
Poems
Correspondence, English Poets, English poetry
1844

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elizabeth Barrett Browning ranks 2,413 out of 7,302. Before her are Vasile Alecsandri, Ahmad Shamlou, Eustache Deschamps, Ki no Tsurayuki, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, and Antiochus Kantemir. After her are Sotion, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Vonda N. McIntyre, Charlotte Buff, Aelred of Rievaulx, and Kate Chopin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Elizabeth Barrett Browning ranks 27. Before her are Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Antoine Wiertz, John A. Roebling, William, Duke of Brunswick, Karl Friedrich Mohr, and Juliette Drouet. After her are Lionel Kieseritzky, Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, Giacomo Antonelli, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Michel Chevalier, and Henriette Sontag. Among people deceased in 1861, Elizabeth Barrett Browning ranks 32. Before her are Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Eugène de Mazenod, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and Pierre Berthier. After her are Joachim Lelewel, Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, Karol Lipiński, John Stevens Henslow, Albert Niemann, and Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Barrett Browning ranks 1,787 out of 8,785. Before her are David Roberts (1796), Stephen Toulmin (1922), William Jones (1675), Derek Jarman (1942), Shakin' Stevens (1948), and Clarke Abel (1780). After her are Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Robert Palmer (1949), Asma al-Assad (1975), John Badham (1939), John Fastolf (1380), and Tim Rice (1944).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Barrett Browning ranks 193. Before her are Terry Eagleton (1943), Philip Sidney (1554), Walter Bagehot (1826), William Auld (1924), Leonard Woolf (1880), and Taliesin (518). After her are Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Dorothy L. Sayers (1893), George Meredith (1828), Renée Vivien (1877), E. Nesbit (1858), and William Beckford (1760).

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