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Josephine Tey

1896 - 1952

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Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author. Her novel The Daughter of Time, a detective work investigating the death of the Princes in the Tower, was chosen by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990 as the greatest crime novel of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josephine Tey has received more than 602,241 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Josephine Tey is the 3,274th most popular writer (down from 3,203rd in 2019), the 2,424th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,385th in 2019) and the 278th most popular British Writer.

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  • 600k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Josephine Tey ranks 3,274 out of 5,755. Before her are Alberto Savinio, Annette Kellermann, Johan Herman Wessel, Sakya Pandita, Duchess Agnes of Württemberg, and Yevgeny Baratynsky. After her are Marie Corelli, Georges Schehadé, Abu Firas al-Hamdani, Karel Píč, Sibilla Aleramo, and Jean-Denis Bredin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Josephine Tey ranks 136. Before her are Dodie Smith, Vasily Gordov, Edward Arthur Milne, Boris Podolsky, Evgeny Schwartz, and Raymond Massey. After her are Alberto Demicheli, Peter Cheyney, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, Nobuko Yoshiya, and William Cameron Menzies. Among people deceased in 1952, Josephine Tey ranks 89. Before her are Harold Innis, Edward S. Curtis, Krystyna Skarbek, Mauno Pekkala, Alberto Savinio, and Adolf Busch. After her are Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Albert Bassermann, Nikos Beloyannis, Sunao Tawara, Elmo Lincoln, and Silvio Cator.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Josephine Tey ranks 2,424 out of 7,765. Before her are John Madden (1949), Bill Ivy (1942), Blaze Bayley (1963), Blanche of England (1392), William Nicholson (1753), and Patricia Routledge (1929). After her are James Whale (1889), W. V. D. Hodge (1903), William Kingdon Clifford (1845), John Alcott (1930), Samantha Bond (1961), and Edmund Crouchback (1245).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Josephine Tey ranks 278. Before her are Lytton Strachey (1880), Ford Madox Ford (1873), Walter Map (1140), Nevil Shute (1899), Rupert Brooke (1887), and Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805). After her are Peter Cheyney (1896), William Langland (1332), Nancy Mitford (1904), William Cowper (1731), Alexander Neckam (1157), and William Hope Hodgson (1877).

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