WRITER

Sheridan Le Fanu

1814 - 1873

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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (; 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. He was a leading ghost story writer of his time, central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sheridan Le Fanu has received more than 796,968 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Sheridan Le Fanu is the 1,706th most popular writer (down from 1,588th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Ireland and the 15th most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 800k

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  • 63.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 1,706 out of 7,302. Before him are Aleksa Šantić, Maximus the Greek, Jean Bodel, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Shen Yue, and Táhirih. After him are Boris Akunin, Bernard Malamud, Kateb Yacine, Mao Dun, Hadewijch, and Lucinda Riley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 22. Before him are Juan Prim, 1st Count of Reus, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, Heinrich Geißler, and Alexander Cunningham. After him are Bhanubhakta Acharya, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, Eduard Zeller, Eugène Charles Catalan, Rasoherina, and Théodolinde de Beauharnais. Among people deceased in 1873, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 21. Before him are Émile Gaboriau, Johns Hopkins, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Muhammad IV of Morocco, Pauline Therese of Württemberg, and Urbano Rattazzi. After him are Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Viktor Hartmann, José Antonio Páez, and Jean Chacornac.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 65 out of 549. Before him are Sinéad O'Connor (1966), Brian Cowen (1960), Mary Robinson (1944), George Francis FitzGerald (1851), Christy Brown (1932), and Kevin Farrell (1947). After him are Brian Boru (941), J. D. Bernal (1901), Edmund the Martyr (841), Malcolm II of Scotland (954), John Banville (1945), and Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Sheridan Le Fanu ranks 15. Before him are Iris Murdoch (1919), Joseph Murphy (1898), Ethel Voynich (1864), Saint Gall (550), Thomas Moore (1779), and Christy Brown (1932). After him are John Banville (1945), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Patrick Pearse (1879), Charles Maturin (1780), John Millington Synge (1871), and Cornelius Ryan (1920).

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