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Frances Harper

1825 - 1911

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African American women to be published in the United States. Born free in Baltimore, Maryland, Harper had a long and prolific career, publishing her first book of poetry at the age of 20. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frances Harper has received more than 294,382 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Frances Harper is the 6,305th most popular writer (down from 5,871st in 2019), the 11,264th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,435th in 2019) and the 828th most popular American Writer.

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  • 290k

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  • 42.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frances Harper ranks 6,305 out of 7,302. Before her are Iskandar Khatloni, Caryl Churchill, Lynne Cox, Kate Morton, Joanna Baillie, and Wayne C. Booth. After her are John Toll, William H. Gass, Jean Stafford, Humphrey Carpenter, Brian Moore, and Alastair Reynolds.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Frances Harper ranks 89. Before her are James Skivring Smith, Albrecht Weber, John Lawrence LeConte, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, R. D. Blackmore, and Benjamin Mountfort. After her are Francis James Child, Henry Heth, Bayard Taylor, William Spottiswoode, Newton Booth, and Julius Kühn. Among people deceased in 1911, Frances Harper ranks 88. Before her are Albert Ladenburg, Georg Hilmar, Morten Müller, Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, and Merritt Giffin. After her are John Douglas, and Sam Dickson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frances Harper ranks 11,264 out of 20,380. Before her are Howell Cobb (1815), Maria Schneider (1960), June Haver (1926), Horatio Seymour (1810), Wayne C. Booth (1921), and Tiffany Mynx (1971). After her are T.I. (1980), Don Stark (1954), John Toll (1952), John Allen Nelson (1959), Oscar Osthoff (1883), and William H. Gass (1924).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Frances Harper ranks 828. Before her are Tim O'Brien (1946), Abby Mann (1927), Paul Klebnikov (1963), Colleen Hoover (1979), Lynne Cox (1957), and Wayne C. Booth (1921). After her are John Toll (1952), William H. Gass (1924), Jean Stafford (1915), Sandra Cisneros (1954), Bill Bright (1921), and Christina Hoff Sommers (1950).

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