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William Harrison Ainsworth

1805 - 1882

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William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 – 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist born at King Street in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession held no attraction for him. While completing his legal studies in London he met the publisher John Ebers, at that time manager of the King's Theatre, Haymarket. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Harrison Ainsworth has received more than 251,874 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. William Harrison Ainsworth is the 5,402nd most popular writer (down from 4,787th in 2019), the 4,100th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,645th in 2019) and the 459th most popular British Writer.

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  • 53.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Harrison Ainsworth ranks 5,402 out of 7,302. Before him are Marie Belloc Lowndes, Ring Lardner, Aya Kitō, Elizabeth Hawley, José Carlos Somoza, and John Connolly. After him are Henry Roth, Kang Kyeong-ae, Ibrahim Kuni, Kristin Hannah, Kārlis Skalbe, and Mochtar Lubis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, William Harrison Ainsworth ranks 71. Before him are Robert Anderson, Rudolf Wagner, Tomás Villalba, Tomás Frías, Alexander Burnes, and Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg. After him are Samuel Palmer, James Wilson, Michael Sars, Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz, Horatio Greenough, and Angelina Grimké. Among people deceased in 1882, William Harrison Ainsworth ranks 69. Before him are Charles Wyville Thomson, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, Ion Andreescu, James Spriggs Payne, George Perkins Marsh, and William Barton Rogers. After him are James Challis, William Shanks, Francisco Javier Zaldúa, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, Nain Singh, and Thomas Romney Robinson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Harrison Ainsworth ranks 4,100 out of 8,785. Before him are Howard Stringer (1942), Colin Hay (1953), Jesse Ramsden (1735), Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868), Henry Taylor (1932), and Emily Blackwell (1826). After him are Walter Winterbottom (1913), Robert Newton (1905), George Larner (1875), Ashley Montagu (1905), Duncan Jones (1971), and David Pegg (1935).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Harrison Ainsworth ranks 459. Before him are Aneirin (525), Ali Smith (1962), Richard Llewellyn (1906), Kim Newman (1959), Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1674), and Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868). After him are Olivia Manning (1908), Mary Sidney (1561), John Clare (1793), Dan Houser (1974), Richard Hoggart (1918), and Kate Atkinson (1951).

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