WRITER

George Lillo

1691 - 1739

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George Lillo (3 February 1691 – 4 September 1739) was an English playwright and tragedian. He was also a jeweller in London. He produced his first stage work, Silvia, or The Country Burial, in 1730, and a year later his most famous play, The London Merchant. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Lillo has received more than 47,988 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. George Lillo is the 5,589th most popular writer, the 4,292nd most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 485th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 48k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Fatal curiosity
English drama
1737
The London merchant, or The history of George Barnwell
1731
The London merchant
Drama, Merchants, Apprentices
1731
George Barnwell
1732
The London Merchant
2009
George Barnwell
Drama, Merchants
1777

Among WRITERS

Among writers, George Lillo ranks 5,589 out of 7,302. Before him are Aubrey de Grey, Alexander Amfiteatrov, Lina Morgenstern, Douglas Coupland, Madeleine L'Engle, and Luigi Galleani. After him are Yordan Radichkov, Fang Fang, Åsne Seierstad, J. Slauerhoff, Marilyn Ferguson, and Otokar Březina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1691, George Lillo ranks 12. Before him are Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Francesco Feo, Edward Cave, Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz, Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, and Alessandro Galilei.  Among people deceased in 1739, George Lillo ranks 12. Before him are James Anderson, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Reinhard Keiser, Cosmas Damian Asam, and Dick Turpin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Lillo ranks 4,292 out of 8,785. Before him are Terry George (1952), Aubrey de Grey (1963), Samuel Arnold (1740), Clive Brook (1887), William Primrose (1904), and Ben Nicholson (1894). After him are Paul McGann (1959), Arthur Whitten Brown (1886), James Wilson (1805), Adebayo Akinfenwa (1982), George Hillyard (1864), and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (1985).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, George Lillo ranks 485. Before him are Michael Grant (1914), Roger Ascham (1515), Paula Yates (1959), Susanna Clarke (1959), Beryl Markham (1902), and Aubrey de Grey (1963). After him are Mark Haddon (1962), Terence Rattigan (1911), John Gardner (1926), Richard D. Ryder (1940), Stephen Spender (1909), and George William Russell (1867).

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