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Joan Lindsay

1896 - 1984

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Joan à Beckett Weigall, Lady Lindsay (16 November 1896 – 23 December 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist. Trained in her youth as a painter, she published her first literary work in 1936 at age forty under a pseudonym, a satirical novel titled Through Darkest Pondelayo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan Lindsay has received more than 228,727 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Joan Lindsay is the 3,987th most popular writer, the 137th most popular biography from Australia and the 13th most popular Australian Writer.

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  • 230k

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  • 57.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joan Lindsay ranks 3,987 out of 7,302. Before her are Emmy Hennings, Titus Calpurnius Siculus, Lady Ise, Frankétienne, Yuriy Venelin, and Wilferd Madelung. After her are Matilde Serao, Maxwell Anderson, Ralph Ellison, Sarah Kirsch, Alexander Neckam, and Mary Norton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Joan Lindsay ranks 162. Before her are Vilho Niittymaa, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, George Burns, Robert E. Sherwood, Friedrich Waismann, and Ulises Saucedo. After her are Sao Shwe Thaik, Lilia Skala, Murray Leinster, Edward Arthur Milne, William Gopallawa, and Robert Gerhard. Among people deceased in 1984, Joan Lindsay ranks 152. Before her are Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Merman, Vincent J. McMahon, Sven Jonasson, Ralph Kirkpatrick, and Grete Hermann. After her are Marcel Moyse, Peter Walker, Fulvio Bernardini, Claude Chevalley, Luke Kelly, and Kurt Martti Wallenius.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Joan Lindsay ranks 137 out of 1,143. Before her are Albert Namatjira (1902), William Jones (null), Russell Mulcahy (1953), Camila (null), James Wolfensohn (1933), and Bill Hayden (1933). After her are Peter Scully (1963), Radha Mitchell (1973), Tim Schenken (1943), John Winter (1924), Mick Doohan (1965), and Phillip Noyce (1950).

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Among WRITERS In Australia

Among writers born in Australia, Joan Lindsay ranks 13. Before her are Elizabeth von Arnim (1866), Morris West (1916), James Aldridge (1918), Germaine Greer (1939), Banjo Paterson (1864), and John Flanagan (1944). After her are Gregory David Roberts (1952), Peter Carey (1943), Greg Egan (1961), Trudi Canavan (1969), Joseph Jacobs (1854), and Patricia Wrightson (1921).

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