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Jane Austen

1775 - 1817

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Jane Austen ( OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works are implicit critiques of the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jane Austen has received more than 17,905,661 page views. Her biography is available in 136 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 126 in 2019). Jane Austen is the 47th most popular writer (down from 43rd in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 33rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Writer.

Jane Austen is most famous for her novels, such as Pride and Prejudice and Emma.

Memorability Metrics

  • 18M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 80.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 136

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jane Austen ranks 47 out of 7,302. Before her are Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, Stendhal, Euripides, Gustave Flaubert, and Aristophanes. After her are Aeschylus, Simone de Beauvoir, Octave Mirbeau, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sappho, and Thomas Mann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Jane Austen ranks 1. After her are André-Marie Ampère, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, J. M. W. Turner, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène François Vidocq, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, Adam Albert von Neipperg, and Georg Friedrich Grotefend. Among people deceased in 1817, Jane Austen ranks 1. After her are Tadeusz Kościuszko, Germaine de Staël, Charles Messier, André Masséna, Marie Walewska, Karađorđe, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, and Fyodor Ushakov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jane Austen ranks 35 out of 8,785. Before her are Margaret Thatcher (1925), Anne Boleyn (1501), Alexander Fleming (1881), James Cook (1728), James Prescott Joule (1818), and Alexander Graham Bell (1847). After her are Robert Hooke (1635), David Hume (1711), Mary I of England (1516), John Maynard Keynes (1883), Alfred Hitchcock (1899), and John Lennon (1940).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Jane Austen ranks 5. Before her are William Shakespeare (1564), Lord Byron (1788), Agatha Christie (1890), and Charles Dickens (1812). After her are Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Daniel Defoe (1660), Emily Brontë (1818), Virginia Woolf (1882), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Lewis Carroll (1832), and Mary Shelley (1797).

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