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George Gissing

1857 - 1903

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George Robert Gissing ( GHISS-ing; 22 November 1857 – 28 December 1903) was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. In the 1890s he was considered one of the three greatest novelists in England, and by the 1940s he had been recognised as a literary genius. Gissing's best-known works have reappeared in modern editions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Gissing has received more than 408,087 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). George Gissing is the 3,564th most popular writer (up from 3,810th in 2019), the 2,550th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,800th in 2019) and the 291st most popular British Writer.

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  • 410k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, George Gissing ranks 3,564 out of 7,302. Before him are Edith Durham, Joss Whedon, Oppian, Jorge de Montemor, Louis Adamic, and Altaf Hussain Hali. After him are Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Ernst Weiss, Robert Garnier, Liza Marklund, Safvet-beg Bašagić, and Robert W. Chambers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, George Gissing ranks 91. Before him are Gabriela Zapolska, Gunnar Heiberg, Louis Dollo, Knut Ångström, Eva Bonnier, and Theodor Curtius. After him are Albert Ballin, Manuel Estrada Cabrera, Anita Augspurg, Ivo Vojnović, Georges Leygues, and Joseph Larmor. Among people deceased in 1903, George Gissing ranks 50. Before him are Kusumoto Ine, Adrien Proust, Ozaki Kōyō, Tang Jingsong, Karl Gegenbaur, and Auguste Kerckhoffs. After him are Gustav Radde, Girolamo de Rada, Frederick Law Olmsted, Lina Sandell, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, and Konstantinos Paspatis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Gissing ranks 2,550 out of 8,785. Before him are Dominic Purcell (1970), Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878), Edith Durham (1863), Blanche of England (1392), Philip Stone (1924), and Simon Le Bon (1958). After him are James Galway (1939), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Robert Kerr (1882), Walter Legge (1906), Harry Brearley (1871), and Alan Lee (1947).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, George Gissing ranks 291. Before him are Andrew Lang (1844), William Cowper (1731), Henri Alleg (1921), Edwin Arnold (1832), Leslie Stephen (1832), and Edith Durham (1863). After him are Graham Hancock (1950), I. A. Richards (1893), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), William Robertson Smith (1846), and Diana Mosley (1910).

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