WRITER

Lady Charlotte Guest

1812 - 1895

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Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest (née Bertie; 19 May 1812 – 15 January 1895), later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English aristocrat who is best known as the first publisher in modern print format of the Mabinogion, the earliest prose literature of Britain. Guest established the Mabinogion as a source literary text of Europe, claiming this recognition among literati in the context of contemporary passions for the chivalric romance of King Arthur and the Gothic movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lady Charlotte Guest has received more than 110,232 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Lady Charlotte Guest is the 6,117th most popular writer (down from 5,704th in 2019), the 5,053rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,974th in 2019) and the 568th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Lady Charlotte Schreiber's journals
Private collections, Pottery, Art objects
1911
The Mabinogian
2006
Mabinogion
1990
The Mabinogion
2003
Journals
1911

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lady Charlotte Guest ranks 6,117 out of 7,302. Before her are George B. Seitz, Andrzej Stasiuk, Margaret Oliphant, Roma Ryan, Robert B. Sherman, and Julia Alvarez. After her are Nathaniel Parker Willis, Elizabeth F. Ellet, Kathryn Stockett, Rolf Jacobsen, Louis Sachar, and Michael Lewis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Lady Charlotte Guest ranks 72. Before her are Bertalan Szemere, Nicolae Crețulescu, Aleardo Aleardi, Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, Carl Edvard Rotwitt, and William Shanks. After her are George Grey, Dragojla Jarnević, William Fox, and John B. Weller. Among people deceased in 1895, Lady Charlotte Guest ranks 88. Before her are Ludwig Schläfli, Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, Charles Frédéric Girard, Henry Seebohm, Walter Q. Gresham, and Richard Morris Hunt. After her are Peter Hardeman Burnett, Calvert Vaux, Hugh McCulloch, and Emily Faithfull.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lady Charlotte Guest ranks 5,053 out of 8,785. Before her are Margaret Oliphant (1828), Val Guest (1911), Robert Peake the Elder (1551), Steve Jackson (1951), Clive Standen (1981), and Roma Ryan (1950). After her are Aaron Taylor-Johnson (1990), Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (1762), Pat Crerand (1939), Stuart Pearce (1962), William Adam (1689), and John Connelly (1938).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lady Charlotte Guest ranks 568. Before her are John Betjeman (1906), Eva Crane (1912), George Grove (1820), Ian McDonald (1960), Margaret Oliphant (1828), and Roma Ryan (1950). After her are Darren Shan (1972), Dannie Abse (1923), Ann Cleeves (1954), Reginald Hill (1936), Bernardine Evaristo (1959), and J. G. Farrell (1935).

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