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Walter Pater

1839 - 1894

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Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Pater has received more than 583,579 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Pater is the 2,897th most popular writer (down from 2,804th in 2019), the 2,132nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,112th in 2019) and the 239th most popular British Writer.

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  • 580k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Walter Pater ranks 2,897 out of 7,302. Before him are John Fletcher, Tom Stoppard, Francisco Ayala, Huseyn Javid, Léon Daudet, and Herman J. Mankiewicz. After him are Budd Schulberg, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Marie Corelli, Lev Rubinstein, Jean Richepin, and Jean-Antoine de Baïf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Walter Pater ranks 43. Before him are Ouida, Pavlo Chubynsky, George Mary Searle, John Butler Yeats, Abdyl Frashëri, and Luigi Pelloux. After him are Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Francis Garnier, Pōmare V, Hermann Hankel, Nikolai Linevich, and Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Among people deceased in 1894, Walter Pater ranks 41. Before him are William Waddington, Theophan the Recluse, Amelia Bloomer, Auguste Vaillant, Władysław Czartoryski, and Conrad of Parzham. After him are Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Pavel Yablochkov, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, and Émile Henry.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Walter Pater ranks 2,132 out of 8,785. Before him are James H. Wilkinson (1919), Charles Boycott (1832), Anthony Asquith (1902), John Fletcher (1579), Arnold Bax (1883), and Rosamund Clifford (1150). After him are John Hannah (1962), John Illsley (1949), Lady Katherine Grey (1540), Marie Stopes (1880), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), and Patrick Magee (1922).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Walter Pater ranks 239. Before him are John Webster (1578), Joseph Delaney (1945), Irvine Welsh (1957), Anthony Horowitz (1955), Michael Bond (1926), and John Fletcher (1579). After him are Dodie Smith (1896), Jack Higgins (1929), David Gemmell (1948), Charles Kingsley (1819), Thomas Otway (1652), and Angela Carter (1940).

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