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Lady Caroline Lamb

1785 - 1828

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Lady Caroline Lamb (née Ponsonby; 13 November 1785 – 25 January 1828) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist, best known for Glenarvon, a Gothic novel. In 1812, she had an affair with Lord Byron, whom she described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lady Caroline Lamb has received more than 1,386,316 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Lady Caroline Lamb is the 3,210th most popular writer (down from 1,794th in 2019), the 2,328th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,407th in 2019) and the 262nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 1.4M

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  • 52.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lady Caroline Lamb ranks 3,210 out of 7,302. Before her are Maria Wirtemberska, Peter Benchley, Imre Madách, Adam of Saint Victor, Corippus, and Joan Brossa. After her are Nodira, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Ephraim Chambers, André Aciman, and Jerzy Giedroyc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Lady Caroline Lamb ranks 37. Before her are Edward Bransfield, Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Vicente López y Planes, José Miguel Carrera, Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, and Agustín Gamarra. After her are Archduke Karl of Austria-Este, Shah Shujah Durrani, Anna Sundström, Francisco Antonio Pinto, August Böckh, and Martín Miguel de Güemes. Among people deceased in 1828, Lady Caroline Lamb ranks 26. Before her are Samuel Frederick Gray, James Edward Smith, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Gilbert Stuart, and Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles. After her are Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, Jacques Lauriston, Eise Eisinga, François Isaac de Rivaz, Albrecht Thaer, and Christian August Lorentzen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lady Caroline Lamb ranks 2,328 out of 8,785. Before her are Guy Edwards (1942), Roger Williams (1603), Jamie Dornan (1982), Gerry Rafferty (1947), F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782), and Christopher Hill (1912). After her are John Hadley (1682), Stanley Myers (1930), Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924), Ephraim Chambers (1680), Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (1210), and John Walker (1781).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lady Caroline Lamb ranks 262. Before her are Hamnet Shakespeare (1585), Robert Fisk (1946), William Ernest Henley (1849), Jojo Moyes (1969), Ken Robinson (1950), and Robert Harris (1957). After her are Ephraim Chambers (1680), Hilary Mantel (1952), Ford Madox Ford (1873), Arnold Bennett (1867), Paul Johnson (1928), and Frances Burney (1752).

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