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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 1,426,357 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Elizabeth Gaskell is the 1,194th most popular writer (down from 1,096th in 2019), the 893rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 886th in 2019) and the 106th 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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  • 4.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elizabeth Gaskell ranks 1,194 out of 7,302. Before her are Laura Marx, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Marcus Manilius, Emmanuelle Arsan, Solomon Northup, and Juan Rulfo. After her are Radegund, Subramania Bharati, Max Nordau, Pierre de Marivaux, Aristophanes of Byzantium, and Dan Simmons.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Elizabeth Gaskell ranks 20. Before her are Otto Nicolai, Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Fanny Elssler, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, and Francesco Maria Piave. After her are Karl Richard Lepsius, Henri Victor Regnault, Asa Gray, Ferenc Erkel, Constant Troyon, and Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre. Among people deceased in 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell ranks 14. Before her are Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Johann Franz Encke, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, and Robert FitzRoy. After her are Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Heinrich Barth, Shoqan Walikhanov, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Princess Sophie of Sweden, and Giuditta Pasta.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Gaskell ranks 893 out of 8,785. Before her are Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Mick Taylor (1949), Samuel Butler (1612), Rob Halford (1951), Charles Lightoller (1874), and Eugen d'Albert (1864). After her are Æthelberht, King of Wessex (836), Mike Newell (1942), Herbert C. Brown (1912), Petula Clark (1932), Eadgyth (910), and George Vancouver (1757).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Gaskell ranks 106. Before her are Dylan Thomas (1914), E. M. Forster (1879), John William Polidori (1795), Bernard Cornwell (1944), Edmund Spenser (1552), and Samuel Butler (1612). After her are Sarah, Duchess of York (1959), James Anderson (1680), David Irving (1938), John Dryden (1631), Arthur Hailey (1920), and Samuel Pepys (1633).

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