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Lytton Strachey

1880 - 1932

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Giles Lytton Strachey (; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lytton Strachey has received more than 853,006 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Lytton Strachey is the 3,136th most popular writer (up from 3,624th in 2019), the 2,332nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,673rd in 2019) and the 272nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 850k

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  • 51.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lytton Strachey ranks 3,136 out of 5,755. Before him are Cristina Calderón, Jim Carroll, Bill Bryson, José Lezama Lima, Futabatei Shimei, and John Perkins. After him are Alexandre Herculano, Tiziano Terzani, Corippus, Hella Haasse, Jules Vallès, and Oswald de Andrade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Lytton Strachey ranks 112. Before him are Walter Hohmann, Walter Short, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Christabel Pankhurst, Fritz Bleyl, and Hans Hofmann. After him are Carl Schuricht, W. C. Fields, Jeannette Rankin, Frigyes Riesz, Tom Mix, and Richard Oswald. Among people deceased in 1932, Lytton Strachey ranks 72. Before him are Max Slevogt, Harriet Backer, Julius Röntgen, Paul Neumann, Paul Gorguloff, and Maximilian Voloshin. After him are Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Peg Entwistle, Maironis, Charles Fort, Arnošt Muka, and Filippo Turati.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lytton Strachey ranks 2,332 out of 7,765. Before him are Steven Knight (1959), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Edward Coke (1552), John Latham (1740), Auguste Couder (1789), and Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874). After him are Dennis Viollet (1933), Roger Fry (1866), Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (1261), Richard Armitage (1971), Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1870), and Francis Crozier (1796).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lytton Strachey ranks 272. Before him are John Stott (1921), Wilfred Owen (1893), John Evelyn (1620), Charles Kingsley (1819), Branwell Brontë (1817), and Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893). After him are Ford Madox Ford (1873), Walter Map (1140), Nevil Shute (1899), Rupert Brooke (1887), Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805), and Josephine Tey (1896).

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