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Elizabeth Bowen

1899 - 1973

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Elizabeth Bowen CBE (; 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Irish-British 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 474,260 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Elizabeth Bowen is the 4,550th most popular writer (down from 4,092nd in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 179th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 470k

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  • 46.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 4,550 out of 5,755. Before her are Jacques Roubaud, Peter Carey, Gyula Illyés, Richard Bentley, Fedir Bohatyrchuk, and Kenjirō Tokutomi. After her are Karl Leberecht Immermann, Jacky Liew, Levon Shant, Jean Cayrol, Miklós Jósika, and René Maran.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 206. Before her are Pat O'Brien, Charlotte Auerbach, Curtis Bernhardt, Ralf Törngren, Harold Osborn, and Anselmo Alliegro y Milá. After her are Frances Yates, Colleen Moore, Louise Nevelson, Willem Jacob Luyten, Chief Dan George, and Byron Haskin. Among people deceased in 1973, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 186. Before her are Otilio Ulate Blanco, Mahmud Taymur, Jane Bowles, M. Ageyev, Alfred Schmitt, and Emil Voigt. After her are Robert Armstrong, Joe E. Brown, Hilda Geiringer, William Haines, Gustav Freij, and Arthur Freed.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 203 out of 501. Before her are Enda Kenny (1951), Michael McElhatton (1963), Patrick Bergin (1951), Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (1865), Mary Ward (1827), and William Orpen (1878). After her are Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822), Violet Gibson (1876), John Boyne (1971), Henry Kellett (1806), Seán T. O'Kelly (1882), and Oliver Plunkett (1625).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 32. Before her are Seán O'Casey (1880), Maeve Binchy (1939), Jane Wilde (1821), Richard Steele (1672), William Trevor (1928), and George Moore (1852). After her are John Boyne (1971), Michael Scott (1959), William McGonagall (1825), Eoin Colfer (1965), Terence MacSwiney (1879), and John Connolly (1968).

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