WRITER

Mary Sidney

1561 - 1621

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Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (née Sidney, 27 October 1561 – 25 September 1621) was among the first Englishwomen to gain notice for her poetry and her literary patronage. By the age of 39, she was listed with her brother Philip Sidney and with Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare among the notable authors of the day in John Bodenham's verse miscellany Belvidere. Her play Antonius is widely seen as reviving interest in soliloquy based on classical models and as a likely source of Samuel Daniel's closet drama Cleopatra (1594) and of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1607). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Sidney has received more than 293,083 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Sidney is the 5,418th most popular writer (down from 3,605th in 2019), the 4,116th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,654th in 2019) and the 461st most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Modern Short Stories
banks, detective fiction, Encyclopædia Britannica
The adventures of Simon and Susanna / Joel Chandler Harris The crow-child / Mary Mapes Dodge The soul of the great bell / Lafcadio Hearn The ten trails / Ernest Thompson Seton Where love is, there God is also / Count Leo Tolstoi Wood-ladies / Perceval Gibbon On the fever ship / Richard Harding Davis A source of irritation / Stacy Aumonier Moti Guj-Mutineer / Rudyard Kipling Gulliver the great / Walter A. Dyer Sonny's schoolin' / Ruth McEnery Stuart Her first horse show / David Gray My husband's book / James Matthew Barrie War / Jack London The battle of the monsters / Morgan Robertson A dilemma / S. Weir Mitchell [Red-Headed League](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W/The_Red-Headed_League) / A. Conan Doyle One hundred in the dark / Owen Johnson A retrieved reformation / O. Henry Brother Leo / Phyllis Bottome A fight with death / Ian Maclaren The Dan-nan-Ron / Fiona Macleod.
1918
African American communication
African Americans, Communication, Race identity
1992
Red Horse Hill
1909
The United States in Literature
memory plays, autobiographical drama, Family
Contains: ... - [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863232W/Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) by Ambrose Bierce ... - [A Pair of Silk Stockings](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W/A_Pair_of_Silk_Stockings) by Kate Chopin ... - [The Glass Menagerie](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL30293W) by Tennesse Williams
1985
Truth Dexter
1901
Short Stories of America
American short stories
The luck of Roaring Camp / Bret Harte Taking the blue ribbon at the county fair / Mary N. Murfree Ben and Judas / Maurice Thompson Among the corn-rows / Hamlin Garland Ellie's furnishing / Helen R. Martin The arrival of a true southern lady / Francis Hopkinson Smith On the Walpole road / Mary Wilkins Freeman At the 'Cadian ball / Kate Chopin The pearls of Loreto / Gertrude Atherton The windigo / Mary Hartwell Catherwood The girl at Duke's / James Weber Linn Love of life / Jack London By the rod of his wrath / William Allen White The making of a New Yorker / O. Henry A municipal report / O. Henry A local colorist / Annie Trumbull Slosson.
1921

Page views of Mary Sidneys by language

Over the past year Mary Sidney has had the most page views in the with 35,736 views, followed by French (3,360), and Russian (2,063). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (148.10%), French (79.97%), and Basque (79.90%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mary Sidney ranks 5,418 out of 7,302. Before her are Remco Campert, Nathan Zach, Fred Saberhagen, Paddy Chayefsky, Nancy Kress, and Yuri Nagibin. After her are Johan Falkberget, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Anton Donchev, Anton Aškerc, Pentti Saarikoski, and Alain Decaux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1561, Mary Sidney ranks 16. Before her are Thomas Fincke, Adriaan van Roomen, Philippe van Lansberge, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen, and Basilius Besler.  Among people deceased in 1621, Mary Sidney ranks 28. Before her are Hendrick de Keyser, Ottavio Rinuccini, Anna Juliana Gonzaga, Pietro Aldobrandini, Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Dirk Hartog.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Sidney ranks 4,116 out of 8,785. Before her are Stephen Mangan (1968), Spencer Davis (1939), D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), Cædmon (657), and Estelle Winwood (1883). After her are Thomas Brodie-Sangster (1990), Mary Everest Boole (1832), Linus Roache (1964), Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909), Kenneth McAlpine (1920), and Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Mary Sidney ranks 461. Before her are Richard Llewellyn (1906), Kim Newman (1959), Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1674), Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), and Olivia Manning (1908). After her are John Clare (1793), Dan Houser (1974), Richard Hoggart (1918), Kate Atkinson (1951), William Muir (1819), and Roger Hargreaves (1935).

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