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 95,742 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda is the 3,948th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 96k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Sab
1920
La hija de las flores, o, Todos están locos
1852
Diario de amor
Authors, Spanish, Correspondence, Spanish Authors
1928
Baltasar
Drama, Criticism and interpretation, Accessible book
1858
Obras de doña Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
1978

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Over the past year Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda has had the most page views in the with 48,319 views, followed by English (9,950), and French (1,360). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Breton (108.49%), Catalan (82.71%), and Basque (79.06%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda ranks 3,948 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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