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Lydia Becker

1827 - 1890

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Lydia Ernestine Becker (24 February 1827 – 18 July 1890) was a leader in the early British suffrage movement, as well as an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. She established Manchester as a centre for the suffrage movement and with Richard Pankhurst she arranged for the first woman to vote in a British election and a court case was unsuccessfully brought to exploit the precedent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lydia Becker has received more than 98,504 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Lydia Becker is the 4,583rd most popular writer (down from 3,772nd in 2019), the 3,289th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,762nd in 2019) and the 370th most popular British Writer.

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  • 99k

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  • 48.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

A reply to the protest which appeared in the "Nineteenth Century Review," June, 1889
Women, Suffrage
1889
[Letter to] My dear Mr. Garrison
Correspondence, History, Antislavery movements
1877
The rights and duties of women in local government
Suffrage, Women
1879

Page views of Lydia Beckers by language

Over the past year Lydia Becker has had the most page views in the with 10,069 views, followed by French (3,075), and Spanish (1,781). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Urdu (401.59%), Galician (96.86%), and Egyptian Arabic (36.36%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lydia Becker ranks 4,583 out of 7,302. Before her are Marcel Boulenger, George Chapman, Alexander Tairov, Bohuslav Balbín, Alexander Serafimovich, and Rachel de Queiroz. After her are Gleb Uspensky, Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, Ranko Marinković, Pierre Daninos, Panyassis, and Jacques Dupin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Lydia Becker ranks 51. Before her are Nakahama Manjirō, Nikolay Beketov, Jacques-Louis Soret, Petko Slaveykov, Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov, and Kostandin Kristoforidhi. After her are William Dwight Whitney, Ramón Emeterio Betances, Karl Maximovich, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, Lev Lagorio, and Charles John Andersson. Among people deceased in 1890, Lydia Becker ranks 59. Before her are Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Franz Delitzsch, Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Alexander Litovchenko, Władysław Taczanowski, and Pyotr Chikhachyov. After her are Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, Oskar Kolberg, Joseph Hergenröther, George Crook, Carl Jacob Löwig, and John Francis Davis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lydia Becker ranks 3,289 out of 8,785. Before her are Edmund Purdom (1926), Tony Christie (1943), George Chapman (1559), John Marshall (1876), Graham Gouldman (1946), and Carole Pateman (1940). After her are Henry Wood (1869), Jon Pertwee (1919), Emil Voigt (1883), Charles Blagden (1748), Ajahn Brahm (1951), and Tony Kaye (1952).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lydia Becker ranks 370. Before her are Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844), Walter Savage Landor (1775), Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), Alan Bennett (1934), Isaac Watts (1674), and George Chapman (1559). After her are Gilbert Adair (1944), Ronald Knox (1888), W. S. Gilbert (1836), Sarah Kane (1971), Grace Aguilar (1816), and Thomas Middleton (1580).

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