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Robert Louis Stevenson

1850 - 1894

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Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Sidney Colvin, Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Louis Stevenson has received more than 7,367,037 page views. His biography is available in 100 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). Robert Louis Stevenson is the 143rd most popular writer (down from 127th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 90th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Writer.

Robert Louis Stevenson is most famous for his novel, Treasure Island.

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  • 7.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 78.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 100

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 143 out of 7,302. Before him are Yukio Mishima, Carlo Collodi, Boris Pasternak, Mary Shelley, Petronius, and Rudyard Kipling. After him are Walter Scott, Dr. Seuss, Eugène Ionesco, Joan Fuster, Elias Canetti, and William Faulkner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 3. Before him are Jack the Ripper, and Guy de Maupassant. After him are Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Edward Smith, Eduard Bernstein, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Charles Richet, Pierre Loti, and Mihai Eminescu. Among people deceased in 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 3. Before him are Alexander III of Russia, and Heinrich Hertz. After him are Hermann von Helmholtz, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Adolphe Sax, Lajos Kossuth, Gustave Caillebotte, Marie François Sadi Carnot, Anton Rubinstein, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, and Prince Philippe, Count of Paris.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 89 out of 8,785. Before him are Diana, Princess of Wales (1961), Edward I of England (1239), Alan Rickman (1946), Mary Shelley (1797), George Harrison (1943), and Henry VII of England (1457). After him are John Napier (1550), Nicholas Winton (1909), Edward III of England (1312), Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), Jeff Beck (1944), and Walter Scott (1771).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 13. Before him are Daniel Defoe (1660), Emily Brontë (1818), Virginia Woolf (1882), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Lewis Carroll (1832), and Mary Shelley (1797). After him are Walter Scott (1771), Terry Pratchett (1948), H. G. Wells (1866), Aldous Huxley (1894), Roald Dahl (1916), and William Blake (1757).

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