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Matilda Joslyn Gage

1826 - 1898

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Matilda Joslyn Gage (née Joslyn; March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898) was an American writer and activist. She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States, but also campaigned for Native American rights, abolitionism, and freethought. She is the eponym for the Matilda effect, which describes the tendency to deny women credit for scientific invention. She influenced her son-in-law L. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matilda Joslyn Gage has received more than 353,115 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Matilda Joslyn Gage is the 426th most popular social activist (down from 409th in 2019), the 5,357th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,790th in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Matilda Joslyn Gage ranks 426 out of 840. Before her are Josephine Butler, Eugene V. Debs, Iosif Grigulevich, Saalumarada Thimmakka, Afeni Shakur, and Leonard Peltier. After her are Rajendra K. Pachauri, Leona Vicario, Malala Yousafzai, Yacouba Sawadogo, Ōsugi Sakae, and İbrahim Kaypakkaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Matilda Joslyn Gage ranks 45. Before her are Mohamed Sherif Pasha, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Julia Grant, Adile Sultan, Rahime Perestu Sultan, and Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann. After her are İbrahim Şinasi, Spotted Elk, Silvestro Lega, August Ahlqvist, Mariano Ignacio Prado, and Domenico Morelli. Among people deceased in 1898, Matilda Joslyn Gage ranks 55. Before her are Louis Buffet, Tigran Chukhajian, Miklós Barabás, Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, George Allman, and Eli Lilly. After her are Calixto García, Joaquín Crespo, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Emil Hartmann, Karl Knies, and Ramón Emeterio Betances.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Matilda Joslyn Gage ranks 5,357 out of 20,380. Before her are Sandra Bem (1944), Randy Orton (1980), Leonard Peltier (1944), John Scofield (1951), Pamela Reed (1949), and Hubert Dreyfus (1929). After her are Jay Garner (1938), Keenen Ivory Wayans (1958), Heber Doust Curtis (1872), Buffy Sainte-Marie (1941), Leo Huberman (1903), and Karl Struss (1886).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Matilda Joslyn Gage ranks 55. Before her are Louise Bryant (1885), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), Samantha Smith (1972), Eugene V. Debs (1855), Afeni Shakur (1947), and Leonard Peltier (1944). After her are Lester R. Brown (1934), Anna Louise Strong (1885), Cesar Chavez (1927), Grace Sherwood (1660), Lee Radziwill (1933), and William Lloyd Garrison (1805).

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