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Elizabeth Gaskell

1810 - 1865

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Gaskell has received more than 1,342,164 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Elizabeth Gaskell is the 1,098th most popular writer (down from 1,080th in 2019), the 887th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 845th in 2019) and the 108th most popular British Writer.

Elizabeth Gaskell is most famous for her novel "North and South" which was published in 1855. It is about a woman who moves from the south of England to the north of England to work as a governess.

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  • 60.21

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  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elizabeth Gaskell ranks 1,098 out of 5,755. Before her are Jean Giraudoux, Jan Neruda, Andrei Bely, Thomas Chatterton, Pierre Larousse, and Lyudmila Ulitskaya. After her are Lü Dongbin, Ethel Voynich, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Martin Andersen Nexø, and Alcman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Elizabeth Gaskell ranks 17. Before her are Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Nikolay Pirogov, Otto Nicolai, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, and Ernst Kummer. After her are Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Henri Victor Regnault, Karl Richard Lepsius, Francesco Maria Piave, Fanny Elssler, and Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet. Among people deceased in 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell ranks 14. Before her are Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Heinrich Barth, and Robert FitzRoy. After her are Shoqan Walikhanov, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Princess Sophie of Sweden, Shigechiyo Izumi, Kunisada, and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Gaskell ranks 887 out of 7,765. Before her are Thomas Chatterton (1752), Frederic Leighton (1830), Mike Newell (1942), Archer Martin (1910), James Paul Moody (1887), and James Lovelock (1919). After her are Robert Clive (1725), Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594), Michael Atiyah (1929), Andy Serkis (1964), Martin Evans (1941), and Mairead Maguire (1944).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Gaskell ranks 108. Before her are Robert Graves (1895), W. H. Auden (1907), Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), Patrick White (1912), Allan Pinkerton (1819), and Thomas Chatterton (1752). After her are Lobsang Rampa (1910), Dylan Thomas (1914), Arthur Hailey (1920), Thomas De Quincey (1785), John Berger (1926), and James Anderson (1680).

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