WRITER

Vita Sackville-West

1892 - 1962

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Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer. Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vita Sackville-West has received more than 2,345,484 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Vita Sackville-West is the 1,475th most popular writer (up from 1,907th in 2019), the 1,132nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,506th in 2019) and the 129th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Edwardians
Fiction, History, Manners and customs
1930
All Passion Spent
English fiction, Women authors
1931
Pepita
Biography, Dancers, English Authors
1937
Saint Joan of Arc
Biography, Christian saints, History
Historical research about the life of Saint Joan Of Arc
1936
The eagle and the dove
Biography, Carmelites, Christian women saints
1943
Knole and the Sackvilles
Buildings, structures, Genealogy, Knole (Kent)
1922

Page views of Vita Sackville-Wests by language

Over the past year Vita Sackville-West has had the most page views in the with 393,448 views, followed by German (34,930), and Spanish (32,462). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Chinese (177.94%), Finnish (110.19%), and West Frisian (95.77%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vita Sackville-West ranks 1,475 out of 7,302. Before her are August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Elizabeth Siddal, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Don Juan Manuel, Francis Jammes, and Achilles Tatius. After her are René Char, Samuel ibn Naghrillah, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Gottfried August Bürger, Guido Adler, and Ono no Komachi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Vita Sackville-West ranks 81. Before her are Basil Rathbone, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Kang Pan-sok, Harry Stack Sullivan, Walther Nehring, and Rafael Moreno Aranzadi. After her are J. B. S. Haldane, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Thomas Mitchell, Jack L. Warner, Stanisław Sosabowski, and Arnold Hauser. Among people deceased in 1962, Vita Sackville-West ranks 45. Before her are Killing of Peter Fechter, Eiji Yoshikawa, Dušan Simović, André Lhote, Aleksei Antonov, and Princess Helen of Serbia. After her are Natalia Sedova, M. Visvesvaraya, Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg, Lei Feng, Gianna Beretta Molla, and Hu Shih.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Vita Sackville-West ranks 1,132 out of 8,785. Before her are Leopold Stokowski (1882), John Schlesinger (1926), Alexander II of Scotland (1198), John Pople (1925), Idris Elba (1972), and Harold Lowe (1882). After her are John Stewart Bell (1928), Gareth Jones (1905), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), Adrian Lyne (1941), William Bligh (1754), and Angus Deaton (1945).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Vita Sackville-West ranks 129. Before her are Robert Browning (1812), Jane Hawking (1944), Seamus Heaney (1939), Winifred Wagner (1897), Colin Dexter (1930), and Elizabeth Siddal (1829). After her are Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), Allen Carr (1934), Lord Alfred Douglas (1870), Evelyn Waugh (1903), John Gay (1685), and Michael Moorcock (1939).

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