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Elizabeth Bowen

1899 - 1973

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Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen ( BOH-ən; 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her books about "the Big House" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Bowen has received more than 509,269 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Elizabeth Bowen is the 4,224th most popular writer (up from 4,536th in 2019), the 174th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 202nd in 2019) and the 26th most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 510k

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  • 49.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 4,224 out of 7,302. Before her are Vasyl Stefanyk, Esteban Echeverría, William of Poitiers, Guillermo Arriaga, Charlaine Harris, and George Kodinos. After her are Gheorghe Asachi, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Albert Ehrenstein, Edmonde Charles-Roux, and Francesco Mario Pagano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 195. Before her are Eugeniusz Bodo, Hart Crane, Jón Leifs, Miyamoto Yuriko, Alfred Blalock, and Arvīds Pelše. After her are Jobyna Ralston, Aldo Nadi, Giuseppe Amato, Marcel Arland, John Bodkin Adams, and Ramón Muttis. Among people deceased in 1973, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 172. Before her are İbrahim Kaypakkaya, Harold Hotelling, Conrad Aiken, Gösta Dunker, Anton Ackermann, and Robert Buron. After her are William Justin Kroll, Masayuki Mori, Jascha Horenstein, Gram Parsons, Yves Giraud-Cabantous, and Leonid Stein.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 174 out of 549. Before her are Violet Gibson (1876), Sinéad Cusack (1948), Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (1880), Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (1909), Patrick Hillery (1923), and Enda Kenny (1951). After her are Catald (700), Pat McDonald (1878), Seán O'Casey (1880), Maeve Binchy (1939), William Trevor (1928), and Colm Tóibín (1955).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 26. Before her are John Millington Synge (1871), Cornelius Ryan (1920), John Boyne (1971), Edna O'Brien (1930), Brendan Behan (1923), and Jane Wilde (1821). After her are Seán O'Casey (1880), Maeve Binchy (1939), William Trevor (1928), Colm Tóibín (1955), Richard Steele (1672), and Cecil Day-Lewis (1904).

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