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Leslie Stephen

1832 - 1904

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Sir Leslie Stephen (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, mountaineer, and an early humanist activist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leslie Stephen has received more than 437,649 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Leslie Stephen is the 3,551st most popular writer (up from 3,765th in 2019), the 2,541st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,759th in 2019) and the 289th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

English literature and society in the eighteenth century
Social life and customs, English literature, History and criticism
1904
Dictionary of National Biography
biography, dictionary, Dictionaries
The definitive compendium of British biographies, originally commissioned by publisher George Murray Smith of Smith, Elder & co. A series of editors and a long list of contributors followed the format first established by Sir Leslie Stephen. Entries range from one paragraph to several pages per person. The DNB was acquired by Oxford University Press circa 1912. They added supplements, errata, indices, and a _Concise_ version. Modern versions are published as the _Oxford Dictionary of National Biography_. A painstaking transcription from scanned public domain copies is underway at WikiSource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_DNB
1885
History of English thought in the eighteenth century
English Philosophy, Intellectual life, Accessible book
1876
The English utilitarians
Accessible book, History, Utilitarianism
1900
Swift
Accessible book, Biography, Church of Ireland
1882
Alexander Pope
Accessible book, Biography, English Poets
1880

Page views of Leslie Stephens by language

Over the past year Leslie Stephen has had the most page views in the with 53,865 views, followed by Spanish (6,003), and German (4,169). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (212.60%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (41.58%), and Turkish (20.77%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leslie Stephen ranks 3,551 out of 7,302. Before him are Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Pavel Bazhov, Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Bertus Aafjes, Ibn Bibi, and Onomacritus. After him are Charles Malik, Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, Gene Wolfe, Angelos Sikelianos, Natsuo Kirino, and Tōson Shimazaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Leslie Stephen ranks 57. Before him are Arthur Hughes, Charilaos Trikoupis, Jules Vallès, Mary Ann Cotton, Carl Neumann, and Edwin Arnold. After him are Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, Colin Archer, Pavel Chistyakov, Wilhelm Julius Foerster, and Sergey Botkin. Among people deceased in 1904, Leslie Stephen ranks 64. Before him are Sumner Paine, James Longstreet, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, Martin Johnson Heade, and Edwin Arnold. After him are Ferdinand Mannlicher, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Larin Paraske, Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, Miltiadis Gouskos, and Emmanuel Drake del Castillo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Leslie Stephen ranks 2,541 out of 8,785. Before him are Marianne North (1830), Warwick Davis (1970), Edward Blyth (1810), Edwin Arnold (1832), Gordon Jackson (1923), and Barry Jackson (1938). After him are John Thaw (1942), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), Dominic Purcell (1970), Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878), Edith Durham (1863), and Blanche of England (1392).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Leslie Stephen ranks 289. Before him are Robert Kerr (1755), David C. H. Austin (1926), Andrew Lang (1844), William Cowper (1731), Henri Alleg (1921), and Edwin Arnold (1832). After him are Edith Durham (1863), George Gissing (1857), Graham Hancock (1950), I. A. Richards (1893), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), and Siegfried Sassoon (1886).

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