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Grace Elliott

1754 - 1823

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Grace Dalrymple Elliott (c. 1754 – 16 May 1823) was a Scottish courtesan, writer and spy resident in Paris during the French Revolution. She was an eyewitness to events detailed in her memoirs, Journal of my life during the French Revolution (Ma Vie sous la Révolution) published posthumously in 1859. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grace Elliott has received more than 214,291 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Grace Elliott is the 3,409th most popular writer, the 2,445th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 279th most popular British Writer.

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  • 15

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  • 1.81

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Grace Elliott ranks 3,409 out of 7,302Before her are Spencer Johnson, Max Aub, Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Augusto Genina, Mikhail Koltsov, and Jiří Wolker. After her are Lev Nussimbaum, David Eddings, Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, J. B. Priestley, Kafū Nagai, and Joyce Meyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Grace Elliott ranks 40Before her are Claude François de Malet, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Peter Winter, and Isaac René Guy le Chapelier. After her are Banastre Tarleton, Ivan Martos, Juan José Elhuyar, Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, 1st Count of Venadito, and Vincenzo Monti. Among people deceased in 1823, Grace Elliott ranks 24Before her are Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, William Playfair, Iosif Igelström, Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, Zacharias Werner, and Daniel Steibelt. After her are Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen, Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga, Johann Baptist Allgaier, Antonio Nariño, Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein, and Henry Raeburn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Grace Elliott ranks 2,445 out of 8,785Before her are Robert T. A. Innes (1861), Charles James Fox (1749), John Henry Mackay (1864), Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891), John Shrapnel (1942), and Sidney Smith (1764). After her are J. B. Priestley (1894), Ray Clemence (1948), Auguste Couder (1789), John Osborne (1929), John Evelyn (1620), and Richard Robarts (1944).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Grace Elliott ranks 279Before her are David Crystal (1941), John Ford (1586), Vera Brittain (1893), William Hope Hodgson (1877), Charles Lamb (1775), and John Henry Mackay (1864). After her are J. B. Priestley (1894), John Osborne (1929), John Evelyn (1620), Robert Kerr (1755), David C. H. Austin (1926), and Andrew Lang (1844).