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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 British 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 an implicit critique 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 16,995,537 page views. Her biography is available in 126 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 115 in 2019). Jane Austen is the 43rd most popular writer (up from 56th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 36th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Writer.

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

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  • 17M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 81.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 126

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jane Austen ranks 43 out of 5,755. Before her are Alexander Pushkin, Marcel Proust, Hermann Hesse, Denis Diderot, Friedrich Schiller, and Lord Byron. After her are Aristophanes, Euripides, Mark Twain, Simone de Beauvoir, Sappho, and Octave Mirbeau.

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Contemporaries

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

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jane Austen ranks 33 out of 7,765. Before her are Alexander Fleming (1881), Anne Boleyn (1501), John Maynard Keynes (1883), Mary, Queen of Scots (1542), Robert Hooke (1635), and Lord Byron (1788). After her are John Dalton (1766), David Hume (1711), Mary II of England (1662), James Prescott Joule (1818), Thomas More (1478), and Arthur Conan Doyle (1859).

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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), Agatha Christie (1890), Charles Dickens (1812), and Lord Byron (1788). After her are Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Daniel Defoe (1660), Virginia Woolf (1882), Lewis Carroll (1832), Mary Shelley (1797), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), and Walter Scott (1771).

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