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Frederick Rolfe

1860 - 1913

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Frederick William Rolfe (surname pronounced ROHF), better known as Baron Corvo (Italian for "Crow"), and also calling himself Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe (22 July 1860 – 25 October 1913), was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Rolfe has received more than 158,616 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Rolfe is the 5,152nd most popular writer (down from 4,397th in 2019), the 4,061st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,370th in 2019) and the 455th most popular British Writer.

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  • 160k

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  • 44.49

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frederick Rolfe ranks 5,152 out of 5,755Before him are Patrick Chamoiseau, Gay Talese, Tim Powers, Agnes von Krusenstjerna, Fang Fang, and Izaak Walton. After him are Can Dündar, Henry van Dyke Jr., Christopher Paolini, Kazimierz Brandys, Alison Lurie, and Jerry Falwell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Frederick Rolfe ranks 118Before him are D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Antônio Parreiras, Robert Bacon, Ferdinand Boberg, Gabriele Possanner, and Otto Liebe. After him are Daniel Barringer, Roger de Barbarin, Emily Hobhouse, James Neill, Kate Bruce, and Susanna M. Salter. Among people deceased in 1913, Frederick Rolfe ranks 74Before him are Camille Jenatzy, Elena Guro, Gregorio María Aguirre y García, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, Henry Flagler, and Miroslav Kraljević. After him are Robert Collett, George Finnegan, Daniel David Palmer, Alphonse Kirchhoffer, Frederick Holman, and Walter Rutherford.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Rolfe ranks 4,061 out of 7,765Before him are Granville Bantock (1868), Charles Blagden (1748), Brian Henton (1946), Alec B. Francis (1867), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), and Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905). After him are Sidney Robinson (1876), Edith Hannam (1878), Roy Kinnear (1934), Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886), John Rupert Firth (1890), and George Alexander Macfarren (1813).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Frederick Rolfe ranks 455Before him are Richard K. Morgan (1965), Susan Blackmore (1951), Jeanette Winterson (1959), Michael Frayn (1933), Alan Woods (1944), and Izaak Walton (1593). After him are Bruno Heller (1960), Roger Ascham (1515), Gilbert Adair (1944), Charles Allston Collins (1828), John Clare (1793), and Jacqueline Wilson (1945).