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Gertrude Jekyll

1843 - 1932

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Gertrude Jekyll ( JEE-kəl; 29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote over 1000 articles for magazines such as Country Life and William Robinson's The Garden. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gertrude Jekyll has received more than 792,508 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Gertrude Jekyll is the 3,701st most popular writer (down from 3,513th in 2019), the 2,632nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,595th in 2019) and the 298th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 790k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Home and garden
Gardening, Biography, Gardeners
1900
Gardens for small country houses
Design, English Gardens, Gardens
1912
Colour schemes for the flower garden
Gardens, Color in gardening, Flower gardening
1914
Garden ornament
Architecture, Domestic, Domestic Architecture, Garden ornaments and furniture
1918
Wall and water gardens
Water gardens, Gardens, Rock gardens
1890
Wood and garden
Landscape gardening, Flower gardening, Gardening
1899

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gertrude Jekyll ranks 3,701 out of 7,302. Before her are Coelius Sedulius, Christiane Rochefort, David Shore, Diana Mosley, Pêro Vaz de Caminha, and Johan Ludvig Heiberg. After her are Martynas Mažvydas, Maksym Rylsky, Lola Anglada, Mihailo Lalić, Laura Mancinelli, and Nancy Mitford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Gertrude Jekyll ranks 67. Before her are Harald Høffding, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen, Adolf Mayer, Henri Regnault, Friedrich Robert Helmert, and Peter Rosegger. After her are Ernest Mason Satow, Louis Diémer, Gaston Tissandier, Otto Kuntze, Paul Cambon, and Fazlullah Nouri. Among people deceased in 1932, Gertrude Jekyll ranks 86. Before her are Augusto B. Leguía, Hafez Ibrahim, Josephine Crowell, Charles Fort, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, and Mikhail Pokrovsky. After her are Karl Blossfeldt, Duke Alexander of Oldenburg, Ali Rıza Pasha, Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau, Hermann Gunkel, and John Walter Gregory.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gertrude Jekyll ranks 2,632 out of 8,785. Before her are John Turner (1929), Cedric Hardwicke (1893), Richard Armitage (1971), Jeffrey Tate (1943), Diana Mosley (1910), and William Gregor (1761). After her are Kelly Reilly (1977), Lesley-Anne Down (1954), Sam Allardyce (1954), George Raynor (1907), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), and Nancy Mitford (1904).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Gertrude Jekyll ranks 298. Before her are Graham Hancock (1950), I. A. Richards (1893), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), William Robertson Smith (1846), and Diana Mosley (1910). After her are Nancy Mitford (1904), Constance Lloyd (1858), Georgette Heyer (1902), Ian Rankin (1960), Rupert Brooke (1887), and Nick Hornby (1957).

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