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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 216,670 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). William Harrison Ainsworth is the 4,803rd most popular writer (down from 4,406th in 2019), the 3,653rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,383rd in 2019) and the 416th most popular British Writer.

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  • 220k

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  • 45.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Harrison Ainsworth ranks 4,803 out of 5,755. Before him are Anna Brigadere, Miguel Otero Silva, Tom Robbins, Thea Beckman, Raghunath Murmu, and Walter M. Miller Jr.. After him are Petr Bezruč, Jan de Hartog, Muthuswami Dikshitar, Paul van Ostaijen, Jacob van Maerlant, and Louise Penny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, William Harrison Ainsworth ranks 64. Before him are Gabriel Bibron, Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, Tomás Villalba, José Ballivián, Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, and John O. Westwood. After him are Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, James Wilson, Samuel Palmer, Michael Sars, Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz, and Samuel Ryan Curtis. Among people deceased in 1882, William Harrison Ainsworth ranks 64. Before him are Charles Wyville Thomson, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, Ion Andreescu, Ernest Courtot de Cissey, William Shanks, and Antoine Bussy. After him are Katarina Ivanović, James Spriggs Payne, Thomas Romney Robinson, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, James Challis, and Hablot Knight Browne.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Harrison Ainsworth ranks 3,653 out of 7,765. Before him are Craig Armstrong (1959), John Miles (1943), Duncan Jones (1971), Ralph Copeland (1837), Innes Ireland (1930), and Peter Firth (1953). After him are Annie Kenney (1879), Leonard Meredith (1882), Helen Shapiro (1946), Charles Williams (1886), Roger of Wendover (1200), and Michael Heseltine (1933).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Harrison Ainsworth ranks 416. Before him are John Gardner (1926), Fay Weldon (1931), Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), James Thomson (1700), Nigella Lawson (1960), and Edward Carpenter (1844). After him are Charles Williams (1886), Henry Lincoln (1930), George Crabbe (1754), Peter Ackroyd (1949), Margery Kempe (1373), and Roger Hargreaves (1935).

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