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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 762,685 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Gertrude Jekyll is the 3,526th most popular writer (down from 3,235th in 2019), the 2,601st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,421st in 2019) and the 301st most popular British Writer.

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  • 50.02

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among writers, Gertrude Jekyll ranks 3,526 out of 5,755. Before her are Leopold Zunz, David Bergelson, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Henrietta Szold, Ildefonso Falcones, and Donna Tartt. After her are Gustaf Fröding, Elena Văcărescu, Philoxenus of Cythera, Ivo Brešan, Jiří Dienstbier, and Gunter d'Alquen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Gertrude Jekyll ranks 61. Before her are Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, David Gill, Adolf Mayer, Henri Regnault, Gaston Tissandier, and Louis Duchesne. After her are Emily Warren Roebling, Mark Antokolsky, Frank James, Paul Cambon, Georg von Rosen, and Frederic W. H. Myers. Among people deceased in 1932, Gertrude Jekyll ranks 80. Before her are Peg Entwistle, Maironis, Charles Fort, Arnošt Muka, Filippo Turati, and Mikhail Pokrovsky. After her are Herbert Norkus, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, Paul Warburg, Ali Rıza Pasha, Augusto B. Leguía, and Lipót Baumhorn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gertrude Jekyll ranks 2,601 out of 7,765. Before her are Douglas Bader (1910), Nathaniel Bliss (1700), Tommy Lawrence (1940), Richard Bremmer (1953), Phil Campbell (1961), and Nobby Stiles (1942). After her are Catherine of York (1479), Venetia Burney (1918), Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609), John Wilkes (1725), Gladys Cooper (1888), and Jeremy Bulloch (1945).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Gertrude Jekyll ranks 301. Before her are Sue Townsend (1946), John Aubrey (1626), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), Paul Johnson (1928), and John Winthrop (1588). After her are Frances Burney (1752), Andrew Lang (1844), Anita Brookner (1928), Iain Banks (1954), John Henry Mackay (1864), and I. A. Richards (1893).

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