SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Emily Davies

1830 - 1921

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Sarah Emily Davies (22 April 1830 – 13 July 1921) was an English feminist who founded Girton College, Cambridge. She campaigned as a suffragist and for women's rights to university education. In her early life, she attended meetings of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and befriended Barbara Bodichon and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emily Davies has received more than 123,414 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Emily Davies is the 574th most popular social activist (down from 523rd in 2019), the 4,651st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,898th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Social Activist.

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  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Emily Davies ranks 574 out of 840. Before her are Peter Nguyen Van Hung, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Annie Kenney, Aslı Erdoğan, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, and Flora Drummond. After her are Bruno Manser, Lepa Mladjenovic, Wang Dan, Albert Parsons, Thomas Clarkson, and James Meredith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Emily Davies ranks 69. Before her are Viktor Madarász, Daniel Oliver, Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen, Lina Morgenstern, Henry Bird, and John Moresby. After her are Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual, Abraham Jacobi, Oliver Otis Howard, Nain Singh, Harriet Hosmer, and Helen Hunt Jackson. Among people deceased in 1921, Emily Davies ranks 122. Before her are Lipót Schulhof, William Friese-Greene, Isak Saba, Philander C. Knox, Julius von Hann, and Justiniano Borgoño. After her are Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, Léon Moreaux, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, E. W. Hornung, Raymond Thorne, and Henry Hyndman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Emily Davies ranks 4,651 out of 8,785. Before her are Long John Baldry (1941), Joseph Barcroft (1872), Flora Drummond (1878), Moira Shearer (1926), James Thornhill (1675), and Les Ferdinand (1966). After her are Alistair Petrie (1970), Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869), Robert Morris (1734), Thomas Pennant (1726), Justin Fashanu (1961), and John Wain (1925).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Emily Davies ranks 37. Before her are Grey Owl (1888), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Octavia Hill (1838), Emily Hobhouse (1860), Annie Kenney (1879), and Flora Drummond (1878). After her are Thomas Clarkson (1760), Ingrid Newkirk (1949), Arthur Scargill (1938), James Larkin (1876), Harry Hay (1912), and Mirabehn (1892).

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