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R. D. Blackmore

1825 - 1900

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore (7 June 1825 – 20 January 1900), known as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. He won acclaim for vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside, sharing with Thomas Hardy a Western England background and a strong sense of regional setting in his works. Blackmore, often referred to as the "Last Victorian", was a pioneer of the movement in fiction that continued with Robert Louis Stevenson and others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of R. D. Blackmore has received more than 171,597 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. R. D. Blackmore is the 6,215th most popular writer (down from 5,911th in 2019), the 5,220th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,371st in 2019) and the 589th most popular British Writer.

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  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, R. D. Blackmore ranks 6,215 out of 7,302. Before him are Flora Nwapa, Pentti Haanpää, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Cynthia Ozick, Mikhail Gurevich, and China Miéville. After him are Nahum Tate, Mary Lamb, Lawrence Venuti, Max Hastings, George Alec Effinger, and N. Scott Momaday.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, R. D. Blackmore ranks 87. Before him are Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, Francisco Linares Alcántara, James Skivring Smith, Albrecht Weber, John Lawrence LeConte, and Antoinette Brown Blackwell. After him are Benjamin Mountfort, Frances Harper, Francis James Child, Henry Heth, Bayard Taylor, and William Spottiswoode. Among people deceased in 1900, R. D. Blackmore ranks 97. Before him are Tomás Gomensoro Albín, Raimundo Andueza Palacio, Jasper Francis Cropsey, George Grove, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and Ali Shah Durrani. After him is Augustus Pitt Rivers.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, R. D. Blackmore ranks 5,220 out of 8,785. Before him are Hugh N. Kennedy (1947), Terry Chimes (1956), Charlotte Riley (1981), Basil Heatley (1933), Kenny Acheson (1957), and China Miéville (1972). After him are Joseph Wedderburn (1882), Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893), Mary Lamb (1764), John Cannon (1933), Charles Lapworth (1842), and Lionel Jeffries (1926).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, R. D. Blackmore ranks 589. Before him are Alan Garner (1934), John Barbour (1316), Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320), Bernice Rubens (1923), Brian Jacques (1939), and China Miéville (1972). After him are Mary Lamb (1764), Max Hastings (1945), Thomas Hughes (1822), Ronald Firbank (1886), Dan Abnett (1965), and William Empson (1906).

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