Trending

WRITER

Virginia Woolf

1882 - 1941

Photo of Virginia Woolf

Icon of person Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Virginia Woolf has received more than 15,153,576 page views. Her biography is available in 109 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 106 in 2019). Virginia Woolf is the 102nd most popular writer (down from 88th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 64th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Writer.

Virginia Woolf is most famous for her novels Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves.

Memorability Metrics

  • 15M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 76.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 109

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Room of one's own
1929
The Waves
1931
Mrs. Dalloway
English fiction
This Novel Is Set In London At The End Of First World War. It Is The Story Of Clarissa Dalloway And Her Interaction With A Host Of Other Individuals. The Characteristic Feature Of The Novel Is That It Has No Plot In The Conventional Sense. Instead, A Series Of Images Are Presented In A Fragmentary And Spasmodic Nature . The Dominant Theme Is The Sense Of Consciousness Which Permeates The Novel And Makes The Reader Aware Of The Force Of Life Surrounding The Various Characters And Events.
1925
To the Lighthouse
1927
The waves
1931
Orlando
1928

Page views of Virginia Woolves by language

Over the past year Virginia Woolf has had the most page views in the with 1,769,136 views, followed by Spanish (332,509), and German (226,875). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Georgian (218.83%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (156.50%), and Maltese (119.22%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Virginia Woolf ranks 102 out of 7,302. Before her are Matsuo Bashō, George Sand, Marquis de Sade, Jonathan Swift, Ismail I, and James Joyce. After her are Paulo Coelho, Abu Nuwas, Du Fu, André Gide, Stephen King, and Maurice Maeterlinck.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Virginia Woolf ranks 4. Before her are Franklin D. Roosevelt, Igor Stravinsky, and James Joyce. After her are Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Wilhelm Keitel, Georges Braque, Max Born, Sigrid Undset, Georgi Dimitrov, Emmy Noether, and Abdullah I of Jordan. Among people deceased in 1941, Virginia Woolf ranks 5. Before her are Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Rabindranath Tagore, Henri Bergson, and James Joyce. After her are Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Maurice Leblanc, Maximilian Kolbe, Emanuel Lasker, Walther Nernst, and Arthur Evans.

Others Born in 1882

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1941

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Virginia Woolf ranks 63 out of 8,785. Before her are Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900), Emily Brontë (1818), Herbert Spencer (1820), Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930), William Wallace (1270), and Edward Jenner (1749). After her are Charles, Prince of Wales (1948), Harold Harefoot (1016), Thomas Robert Malthus (1766), Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857), John Stuart Mill (1806), and Alex Ferguson (1941).

Others born in United Kingdom

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Virginia Woolf ranks 9. Before her are Agatha Christie (1890), Charles Dickens (1812), Jane Austen (1775), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Daniel Defoe (1660), and Emily Brontë (1818). After her are Charlotte Brontë (1816), Lewis Carroll (1832), Mary Shelley (1797), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), and Terry Pratchett (1948).

British born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous