WRITER

Richard Steele

1672 - 1729

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Sir Richard Steele (c. 1671 – 1 September 1729) was an Anglo-Irish writer, playwright and politician best known as the co-founder of the magazine The Spectator alongside his close friend Joseph Addison. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Steele has received more than 419,139 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Richard Steele is the 4,397th most popular writer (down from 4,330th in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 186th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Irish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The tender husband
English drama
1705
The Christian hero
Christian life, Conduct of life, Accessible book
1701
The funeral
1702
Prose
1944
The conscious lovers
English drama
1723
Richard Steele
Accessible book
1894

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Richard Steele ranks 4,397 out of 7,302. Before him are Olivier de Serres, Robert Chambers, Franz von Schober, Mario Rigoni Stern, Roderich Menzel, and Charles Brockden Brown. After him are Graham Swift, Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Norman Lear, Vladimir Dudintsev, David Baldacci, and Yuri Bondarev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1672, Richard Steele ranks 11. Before him are Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, André Cardinal Destouches, Zhang Tingyu, and Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Homburg.  Among people deceased in 1729, Richard Steele ranks 19. Before him are Torii Kiyonobu I, Samuel Clarke, Giacomo F. Maraldi, Attilio Ariosti, William Congreve, and Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Kanhoji Angre, Anthony Collins, and Jean Hardouin.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Richard Steele ranks 185 out of 549. Before him are William Trevor (1928), Colm Tóibín (1955), Luke Kelly (1940), Jason O'Mara (1972), Richard Kirwan (1733), and Joshua Pim (1869). After him are Tom Moore (1883), Shelley McNamara (1952), Aidan of Lindisfarne (600), Paul Kane (1810), Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie (1815), and Patrick Bergin (1951).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Richard Steele ranks 31. Before him are Jane Wilde (1821), Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Seán O'Casey (1880), Maeve Binchy (1939), William Trevor (1928), and Colm Tóibín (1955). After him are Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), George Moore (1852), John Connolly (1968), William McGonagall (1825), and Michael Scott (1959).

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