SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Josephine Butler

1828 - 1906

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Josephine Elizabeth Butler (née Grey; 13 April 1828 – 30 December 1906) was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era. She campaigned for women's suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture in British law, the abolition of child prostitution, and an end to human trafficking of young women and children into European prostitution. Grey grew up in a well-to-do and politically connected progressive family which helped develop in her a strong social conscience and firmly held religious ideals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josephine Butler has received more than 450,170 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Josephine Butler is the 420th most popular social activist (down from 279th in 2019), the 2,893rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,924th in 2019) and the 26th most popular British Social Activist.

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  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Josephine Butler ranks 420 out of 840. Before her are Shireen Abu Akleh, Mary Edwards Walker, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Mary Dyer, Samantha Smith, and Giuseppe Pinelli. After her are Eugene V. Debs, Iosif Grigulevich, Saalumarada Thimmakka, Afeni Shakur, Leonard Peltier, and Matilda Joslyn Gage.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Josephine Butler ranks 48. Before her are Viktor Rydberg, Joseph Hellmesberger Sr., Heinrich von Ferstel, Leonardo Murialdo, Maria Deraismes, and Effie Gray. After her are René Goblet, Albrecht von Graefe, Staka Skenderova, Boris Chicherin, Dragan Tsankov, and Désiré Charnay. Among people deceased in 1906, Josephine Butler ranks 59. Before her are Johann Most, Spencer Gore, Heinrich Gelzer, Todor Burmov, Suzanne Manet, and Manuel García. After her are Manuel Quintana, Fritz Schaudinn, Slava Raškaj, Marin Drinov, Ernst Schultz, and Ivan Babushkin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Josephine Butler ranks 2,893 out of 8,785. Before her are Eduardo Paolozzi (1924), William Burnside (1852), Matthew Macfadyen (1974), Julia McKenzie (1941), Peter Walker (1912), and Ronald Fairbairn (1889). After her are Nicholas Hilliard (1547), Beatrice Tinsley (1941), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), Maurice Evans (1901), James Purefoy (1964), and Norman Read (1931).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Josephine Butler ranks 26. Before her are Unity Mitford (1914), Charles Boycott (1832), Robert Catesby (1573), James Guillaume (1844), Venetia Burney (1918), and Mary Dyer (1611). After her are Donald Watson (1910), Mary Toft (1703), Jack Sheppard (1702), Hereward the Wake (1035), Grey Owl (1888), and Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930).

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