WRITER

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

1814 - 1873

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Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga (March 23, 1814 – February 1, 1873) was a 19th-century Cuban-born Spanish writer. Born in Puerto Príncipe, now Camagüey, she lived in Cuba until she was 22. Her family moved to Spain in 1836, where she started writing as La Peregrina (The Pilgrim) and lived there until 1859, when she moved back to Cuba with her second husband until his death in 1863, after which she moved back to Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda has received more than 103,116 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda is the 3,949th most popular writer (down from 3,743rd in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Cuba (down from 87th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Cuban Writer.

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  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda ranks 3,949 out of 7,302. Before her are Vera Komissarzhevskaya, John Norman, Arundhati Roy, Yuri Rytkheu, Anton Delvig, and Léon-Paul Fargue. After her are Gloria Fuertes, Paruyr Sevak, Alejandro Casona, Zofia Nałkowska, Philippa Gregory, and Susanna Kaysen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda ranks 52. Before her are Johann Georg Halske, Amalia Lindegren, Gustav Hartlaub, Daniel Kirkwood, Joseph Hooker, and James Paget. After her are Hervé Faye, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Hermann, Prince of Wied, Adolph Tidemand, Franz Josef Ruprecht, and Edwin Stanton. Among people deceased in 1873, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda ranks 52. Before her are Edward Blyth, Edwin Landseer, Spyridon Trikoupis, Gheorghe Bibescu, Francis Marrash, and Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann. After her are Mykhailo Maksymovych, Christopher Hansteen, Charles Dupin, Eugène Flachat, Salmon P. Chase, and Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda ranks 91 out of 300. Before her are Pío Leyva (1917), Ana Mendieta (1948), Ninón Sevilla (1929), Laurel Aitken (1927), William Levy (1980), and Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950). After her are Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (1936), José Miró Cardona (1902), Félix Savón (1967), Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1928), Calixto García (1839), and Aleida Guevara (1960).

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Among WRITERS In Cuba

Among writers born in Cuba, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda ranks 10. Before her are Nicolás Guillén (1902), José-Maria de Heredia (1842), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929), Leonardo Padura Fuentes (1955), José Lezama Lima (1910), and Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950). After her are José María Heredia y Heredia (1803), Alina Fernández (1956), Dulce María Loynaz (1902), Virgilio Piñera (1912), José Carlos Somoza (1959), and Daína Chaviano (1957).

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