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Margery Allingham

1904 - 1966

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Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh. Allingham is best remembered for her hero, the gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. Initially believed to be a parody of Dorothy L. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margery Allingham has received more than 526,950 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Margery Allingham is the 5,013th most popular writer (down from 4,642nd in 2019), the 3,688th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,517th in 2019) and the 421st most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 530k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Margery Allingham ranks 5,013 out of 7,302. Before her are Gabriel Aresti, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Ramón J. Sender, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Sidney Howard, and Þorbjörn Hornklofi. After her are Álvaro Cunqueiro, Anna Maria Ortese, Joanna Russ, Paul Theroux, Wolf Erlbruch, and Pratibha Ray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Margery Allingham ranks 249. Before her are Rukmini Devi Arundale, Doris Eaton Travis, Herbert Selpin, Pretty Boy Floyd, Lillian Copeland, and Paul Mattick. After her are Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Tommy Douglas, Boris Livanov, Jeane Dixon, Vasili Merkuryev, and Antonio Vojak. Among people deceased in 1966, Margery Allingham ranks 167. Before her are René Schick, Georges Theunis, Iosif Czako, Hilde Schrader, Julia Faye, and Robert Charpentier. After her are Frank O'Hara, Herbert Marshall, Wallace Ford, Bernard Schmetz, Paula Strasberg, and Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Margery Allingham ranks 3,688 out of 8,785. Before her are William Mitchell Ramsay (1851), Dorothy Tyler-Odam (1920), Ian Hunter (1939), Tobias Menzies (1974), Gwyneth Jones (1936), and C. V. Boys (1855). After her are Pat Symonds (1953), Robert Lindsay (1890), Harold Mahony (1867), Henry Litolff (1818), Calvin Harris (1984), and Isabella Beeton (1836).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Margery Allingham ranks 421. Before her are Thomas Dekker (1572), Richard Hughes (1900), A. E. Housman (1859), Peter F. Hamilton (1960), Eleanor Farjeon (1881), and Margery Kempe (1373). After her are Michael Hirst (1952), Joyce Mansour (1928), John Gower (1330), Eliza Acton (1799), Edwin Atherstone (1788), and Cynewulf (900).

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