WRITER

Olive Schreiner

1855 - 1920

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Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 – 11 December 1920) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm (1883), which has been highly acclaimed. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olive Schreiner has received more than 286,772 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Olive Schreiner is the 5,079th most popular writer (up from 5,201st in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Lesotho and the most popular Mosotho Writer.

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  • 290k

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  • 47.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Olive Schreiner ranks 5,079 out of 7,302Before her are Hermann Kant, František Čelakovský, Mark Dvoretsky, Ghazaros Aghayan, Leslie Charteris, and Marin Preda. After her are Júlia Szendrey, Jacques Chessex, Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Amitav Ghosh, Alfhild Agrell, and Max Beerbohm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Olive Schreiner ranks 88Before her are Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, Swarnakumari Devi, Cecilia Beaux, Frank Hadow, C. V. Boys, and Vittoria Aganoor. After her are Alfred Ewing, Marie Stritt, Ludwig Ganghofer, Robert M. La Follette, Henry Nicholas Ridley, and Juan Zorrilla de San Martín. Among people deceased in 1920, Olive Schreiner ranks 108Before her are Georgios Papasideris, William de Wiveleslie Abney, Ion Dragoumis, Meri Mangakāhia, William Dean Howells, and Alberto Nepomuceno. After her are Horatio Caro, Robert Harron, Max Fürbringer, Hermann Oldenberg, Ludwig Ganghofer, and Edmund Reitter.

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In Lesotho

Among people born in Lesotho, Olive Schreiner ranks 7 out of 14Before her are Letsie III of Lesotho (1963), Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (1938), Pakalitha Mosisili (1945), Moshoeshoe I (1786), Sebastian Koto Khoarai (1929), and Tom Thabane (1939). After her are Leabua Jonathan (1914), Justin Lekhanya (1938), Moeketsi Majoro (1961), Sam Matekane (1958), Ntsu Mokhehle (1918), and 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso (1976).

Among WRITERS In Lesotho

Among writers born in Lesotho, Olive Schreiner ranks 1