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Frances Burney

1752 - 1840

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Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post of "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George III's queen. In 1793, aged 41, she married a French exile, General Alexandre d'Arblay. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frances Burney has received more than 496,813 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Frances Burney is the 3,552nd most popular writer (down from 3,503rd in 2019), the 2,624th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,600th in 2019) and the 302nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 49.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frances Burney ranks 3,552 out of 5,755. Before her are Gioconda Belli, Mario Soldati, Bronisława Wajs, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Zhou Zuoren, and Jonathan Littell. After her are Garlieb Merkel, Andrew Lang, Henry Bataille, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Seymour Hersh, and Sanmao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Frances Burney ranks 29. Before her are Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Anton Walter, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Maurice d'Elbée, Alexander Tormasov, and Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre. After her are Antonio Scarpa, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Barnaba Oriani, Palisot de Beauvois, Gouverneur Morris, and George Rogers Clark. Among people deceased in 1840, Frances Burney ranks 31. Before her are Anne Lister, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, Dingane kaSenzangakhona, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Sidney Smith, and Karl Otfried Müller. After her are Carl Blechen, Johann Michael Vogl, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Franz Meyen, and Joseph Johann von Littrow.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frances Burney ranks 2,624 out of 7,765. Before her are Mary Dyer (1611), Tony Atkinson (1944), Ken McArthur (1881), Edward Granville Browne (1862), Mary Toft (1703), and Ralph Erskine (1914). After her are Stephen Daldry (1960), Andrew Lang (1844), Jonathan Edwards (1966), Cara Delevingne (1992), John Cairncross (1913), and Sam Claflin (1986).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Frances Burney ranks 302. Before her are John Aubrey (1626), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), Paul Johnson (1928), John Winthrop (1588), and Gertrude Jekyll (1843). After her are Andrew Lang (1844), Anita Brookner (1928), Iain Banks (1954), John Henry Mackay (1864), I. A. Richards (1893), and Mary Sidney (1561).

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