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William Collins

1721 - 1759

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William Collins (25 December 1721 – 12 June 1759) was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Collins has received more than 26,204 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. William Collins is the 6,598th most popular writer (down from 5,815th in 2019), the 5,941st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,164th in 2019) and the 683rd most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 26k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Black Robe
Classic Literature, Fiction, Mystery
1881
Basil
Fiction, Fathers and sons, Young men
1852
The dead secret
Fiction, Social life and customs, Inheritance and succession
1857
The Woman in White
Fiction, mystery & detective, general
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.
1860
The Moonstone
Fiction, Jewelry theft, East Indians
One of the first English detective novels, this mystery involves the disappearance of a valuable diamond, originally stolen from a Hindu idol, given to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, and then stolen again. A classic of 19th-century literature.
1868
The Law and the Lady
Classic Literature, Fiction, Mystery
Three years ago, her husband stood accused of murder -- and the verdict that came in from the jury was the Scottish Verdict, Not Proven. The jury had not evidence enough to convict him -- nor enough to comfortably exonerate him. Eustace could not bear the weight of her discovery; he fled to the continent, to live in anonymity. But Valeria knew her husband, and she loved him. She knew he was innocent, too, with the sort of intuition that guides the lucky flawlessly. And she set out to prove it to the world.
1875

Page views of William Collins by language

Over the past year William Collins has had the most page views in the with 1,880 views, followed by Italian (833), and Spanish (805). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (96.59%), Swedish (30.34%), and Finnish (28.24%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Collins ranks 6,598 out of 7,302. Before him are Zlata Filipović, Al Alvarez, Bhisham Sahni, Hugh Howey, Joseph Wambaugh, and Carlton Cuse. After him are Fedor Samokhin, Steven S. DeKnight, Johanna Sinisalo, Robert Seethaler, Paul Dini, and Louis de Bernières.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1721, William Collins ranks 24. Before him are Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Roger Sherman, William Robertson, Benjamin Wilson, Peyton Randolph, and Mark Akenside.  Among people deceased in 1759, William Collins ranks 20. Before him are James Wolfe, Sedjefakare, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Johann Gottfried Zinn, Jacob Theodor Klein, and Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Collins ranks 5,941 out of 8,785. Before him are Steven Waddington (1968), Richie Faulkner (1980), Al Alvarez (1929), Robin Widdows (1942), Ken Green (1924), and Georgie Henley (1995). After him are Philip May (1957), Tiff Needell (1951), Louis de Bernières (1954), Jemma Redgrave (1965), Atticus Ross (1968), and Rupert Penry-Jones (1970).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Collins ranks 683. Before him are Brian Stableford (1948), Grant Morrison (1960), Colley Cibber (1671), Sophie Hannah (1971), Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth (1914), and Al Alvarez (1929). After him are Louis de Bernières (1954), Mary Russell Mitford (1787), Frederick Denison Maurice (1805), Sheila Jeffreys (1948), Victoria Hislop (1959), and Rose Tremain (1943).

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