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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

1689 - 1762

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England. In 1712, Lady Mary married Edward Wortley Montagu, who later served as the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu has received more than 1,167,339 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is the 1,478th most popular writer (down from 1,006th in 2019), the 1,135th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 798th in 2019) and the 130th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The letters and works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Accessible book, Authors, English, British
1764
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Correspondence
1892
The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Correspondence, Diplomats' spouses, English Authors
1803
Correspondence
British, Correspondence, Description and travel
1763
Verses address'd to the imitator of the first satire of the second book of Horace
1733

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Over the past year Lady Mary Wortley Montagu has had the most page views in the with 91,609 views, followed by Italian (13,355), and Spanish (12,462). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (86.05%), Finnish (63.51%), and Simple English (61.45%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ranks 1,478 out of 7,302. Before her are Don Juan Manuel, Francis Jammes, Achilles Tatius, Vita Sackville-West, René Char, and Samuel ibn Naghrillah. After her are Gottfried August Bürger, Guido Adler, Ono no Komachi, Tomi Ungerer, Avienus, and Adam de la Halle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1689, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ranks 6. Before her are Montesquieu, John V of Portugal, Samuel Richardson, Jacques I, Prince of Monaco, and Samuel Bellamy. After her are Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, Zahir al-Umar, Blas de Lezo, Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, and Alexis Piron. Among people deceased in 1762, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ranks 11. Before her are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Crown Prince Sado, James Bradley, Emperor Momozono, Francesco Geminiani, and Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After her are Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Jean Calas, Tobias Mayer, Françoise-Louise de Warens, Teimuraz II of Kakheti, and Dorothea Erxleben.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ranks 1,135 out of 8,785. Before her are John Pople (1925), Idris Elba (1972), Harold Lowe (1882), Vita Sackville-West (1892), John Stewart Bell (1928), and Gareth Jones (1905). After her are Adrian Lyne (1941), William Bligh (1754), Angus Deaton (1945), Charles Bell (1774), Warren Hastings (1732), and Allen Carr (1934).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ranks 130. Before her are Jane Hawking (1944), Seamus Heaney (1939), Winifred Wagner (1897), Colin Dexter (1930), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), and Vita Sackville-West (1892). After her are Allen Carr (1934), Lord Alfred Douglas (1870), Evelyn Waugh (1903), John Gay (1685), Michael Moorcock (1939), and Hugh Lofting (1886).

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