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Lewis Carroll

1832 - 1898

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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( LUT-wij DOD-sən; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lewis Carroll has received more than 9,153,775 page views. His biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 105 in 2019). Lewis Carroll is the 123rd most popular writer (down from 91st in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 67th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Writer.

Lewis Carroll is most famous for his novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which was published in 1865.

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  • 9.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 106

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lewis Carroll ranks 123 out of 7,302. Before him are Anatole France, Jean Cocteau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Bukowski, Ivo Andrić, and Charlotte Brontë. After him are Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Verlaine, François Villon, Alexandre Dumas fils, and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Lewis Carroll ranks 4. Before him are Édouard Manet, Gustave Eiffel, and Wilhelm Wundt. After him are Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Nikolaus Otto, Maximilian I of Mexico, Gustave Doré, Edward Burnett Tylor, Ivan Shishkin, José Echegaray, and William Crookes. Among people deceased in 1898, Lewis Carroll ranks 3. Before him are Otto von Bismarck, and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. After him are Stéphane Mallarmé, Gustave Moreau, Charbel Makhlouf, Eugène Boudin, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Johann Jakob Balmer, Charles Garnier, and Ferdinand Cohn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lewis Carroll ranks 77 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Heath (1916), Ridley Scott (1937), John Dee (1527), George III of the United Kingdom (1738), David Bowie (1947), and Charlotte Brontë (1816). After him are Alfred the Great (849), George VI (1895), Elton John (1947), J. M. W. Turner (1775), Edward VI of England (1537), and Diana, Princess of Wales (1961).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lewis Carroll ranks 11. Before him are Jane Austen (1775), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Daniel Defoe (1660), Emily Brontë (1818), Virginia Woolf (1882), and Charlotte Brontë (1816). After him are Mary Shelley (1797), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), Terry Pratchett (1948), H. G. Wells (1866), and Aldous Huxley (1894).

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