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Thomas Mayne Reid

1818 - 1883

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Thomas Mayne Reid (4 April 1818 – 22 October 1883) was a British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour, and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Mayne Reid has received more than 198,252 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Thomas Mayne Reid is the 1,144th most popular writer (down from 1,074th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Mexican Writer.

Thomas Mayne Reid is most famous for his 1856 novel, The Scalp Hunters.

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  • 200k

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  • 59.95

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Mayne Reid ranks 1,144 out of 5,755. Before him are Fernando Arrabal, Vasily Zhukovsky, Ugo Foscolo, Emmanuelle Arsan, Giambattista Marino, and Ilia Chavchavadze. After him are Tahar Ben Jelloun, Charles De Coster, Pu Songling, Nathalie Sarraute, Paul Scarron, and Rosalía de Castro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Thomas Mayne Reid ranks 24. Before him are Sophie of Württemberg, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Frederick Douglass, Angelo Secchi, and Mary Todd Lincoln. After him are Amalia of Oldenburg, Richard Jordan Gatling, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, Hermann Kolbe, Tewodros II, and Zachris Topelius. Among people deceased in 1883, Thomas Mayne Reid ranks 15. Before him are Charles II, Duke of Parma, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Eva Gonzalès, Joseph Plateau, and Dayananda Saraswati. After him are Prince Charles of Prussia, Pierre Auguste Cot, Friedrich von Flotow, Alexander Gorchakov, Édouard Roche, and Ranavalona II.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Thomas Mayne Reid ranks 45 out of 585. Before him are Venustiano Carranza (1859), Consuelo Velázquez (1916), Álvaro Obregón (1880), Victoriano Huerta (1850), Linda Christian (1923), and Amado Carrillo Fuentes (1956). After him are Hugo Sánchez (1958), Alfonso Cuarón (1961), Vicente Guerrero (1782), José Clemente Orozco (1883), Luis Echeverría (1922), and Mario J. Molina (1943).

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Among WRITERS In Mexico

Among writers born in Mexico, Thomas Mayne Reid ranks 3. Before him are Octavio Paz (1914) and Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648). After him are Juan Rulfo (1917), Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581), Laura Esquivel (1950), Rosario Castellanos (1925), Don Miguel Ruiz (1952), Mariano Azuela (1873), Cesar Millan (1969), Amado Nervo (1870), and José Emilio Pacheco (1939).

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