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Rank |
Topic |
Wikipedia views |
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1 |
George Orwell |
7,719 |
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2 |
Christopher Hitchens |
7,043 |
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3 |
Bertrand Russell |
5,958 |
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4 |
Virginia Woolf |
5,410 |
 |
5 |
Francis Bacon |
5,236 |
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6 |
Aldous Huxley |
4,337 |
 |
7 |
Thomas Robert Malthus |
3,863 |
 |
8 |
John Milton |
3,656 |
 |
9 |
Arthur C. Clarke |
3,295 |
 |
10 |
Samuel Johnson |
2,509 |
 |
11 |
George Eliot |
2,342 |
 |
12 |
G. K. Chesterton |
2,248 |
 |
13 |
John Ruskin |
1,884 |
 |
14 |
Daniel Defoe |
1,510 |
 |
15 |
E. M. Forster |
1,375 |
 |
16 |
Doris Lessing |
988 |
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17 |
Matthew Arnold |
956 |
 |
18 |
John Dryden |
842 |
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19 |
Lytton Strachey |
510 |
 |
20 |
Anthony Haden-Guest |
507 |
 |
21 |
Hilaire Belloc |
497 |
 |
22 |
Thomas de Quincey |
406 |
 |
23 |
William Hazlitt |
389 |
 |
24 |
Joseph Addison |
342 |
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25 |
Charles Lamb (writer) |
325 |
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26 |
William Cobbett |
246 |
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27 |
Frances Burney |
244 |
 |
28 |
Walter Pater |
226 |
 |
29 |
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon |
217 |
 |
30 |
Stephen Spender |
214 |
 |
31 |
Leigh Hunt |
185 |
 |
32 |
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
174 |
 |
33 |
John Aubrey |
155 |
 |
34 |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld |
153 |
 |
35 |
Thomas Hood |
129 |
 |
36 |
Martin Lewis |
126 |
 |
37 |
Stuart Wilde |
126 |
 |
38 |
John Cowper Powys |
119 |
 |
39 |
Jane Ellen Harrison |
109 |
 |
40 |
Flora Thompson |
103 |
 |
41 |
Eliza Haywood |
102 |
 |
42 |
Abraham Cowley |
95 |
 |
43 |
Walter Savage Landor |
84 |
 |
44 |
Keith Waterhouse |
77 |
 |
45 |
Soame Jenyns |
77 |
 |
46 |
David Pearce (philosopher) |
74 |
 |
47 |
A. C. Benson |
71 |
 |
48 |
Gerald Heard |
69 |
 |
49 |
Christopher Derrick |
62 |
 |
50 |
Thomas Heywood |
57 |
 |
51 |
Lionel Johnson |
57 |
 |
52 |
Henry Austin Dobson |
50 |
 |
53 |
Henry Francis Cary |
50 |
 |
54 |
Frederic William Henry Myers |
49 |
 |
55 |
W. N. P. Barbellion |
45 |
 |
56 |
W. G. Collingwood |
43 |
 |
57 |
Alice Meynell |
42 |
 |
58 |
Augustine Birrell |
37 |
 |
59 |
Brigid Brophy |
36 |
 |
60 |
Jane Gomeldon |
35 |
 |
61 |
Maurice Baring |
34 |
 |
62 |
Joseph Ritson |
30 |
 |
63 |
Ronald Blythe |
30 |
 |
64 |
Robert Blatchford |
29 |
 |
65 |
Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet |
29 |
 |
66 |
Arthur Helps |
28 |
 |
67 |
Philip Thicknesse |
28 |
 |
68 |
Aaron Hill (writer) |
24 |
 |
69 |
Charles Edward Montague |
21 |
 |
70 |
John Bellers |
21 |
 |
71 |
Maxwell Gray |
21 |
 |
72 |
Maurice Hewlett |
20 |
 |
73 |
Holbrook Jackson |
20 |
 |
74 |
Peter Jukes |
20 |
 |
75 |
Donald Hankey |
19 |
 |
76 |
James Burney |
18 |
 |
77 |
Jack Common |
18 |
 |
78 |
Rosina Bulwer Lytton |
16 |
 |
79 |
Benjamin Brierley |
15 |
 |
80 |
Percy Lubbock |
14 |
 |
81 |
Edgell Rickword |
12 |
 |
82 |
Robert Hebert Quick |
12 |
 |
83 |
Michael Derrick |
12 |
 |
84 |
William Adams (master) |
12 |
 |
85 |
Cyril Alington |
12 |
 |
86 |
John Freeman (Georgian poet) |
11 |
 |
87 |
Thomas Adams (writer) |
11 |
 |
88 |
Anna Swanwick |
11 |
 |
89 |
Guy Thorne |
11 |
 |
90 |
Gerald Bullett |
10 |
 |
91 |
Martin J. Goodman |
10 |
 |
92 |
St. John Emile Clavering Hankin |
10 |
 |
93 |
Bessie Rayner Parkes |
10 |
 |
94 |
Maude Petre |
10 |
 |
95 |
Nina Coltart |
10 |
 |
96 |
Thomas Churchyard |
9 |
 |
97 |
James Fitzmaurice-Kelly |
9 |
 |
98 |
Robert Barltrop |
9 |
 |
99 |
Kennedy Fraser |
9 |
 |
100 |
John Brown (essayist) |
8 |
 |
101 |
Richard Adams (religious writer) |
8 |
 |
102 |
John Harris (college head) |
8 |
 |
103 |
Owen Feltham |
7 |
 |
104 |
James Augustus Cotter Morison |
7 |
 |
105 |
Jane Bowdler |
7 |
 |
106 |
George Paston |
7 |
 |
107 |
Claude Phillips |
7 |
 |
108 |
Alfred Bate Richards |
6 |
 |
109 |
John Foster (essayist) |
6 |
 |
110 |
Ralph Bates (writer) |
6 |
 |
111 |
Alexander M. Thompson |
6 |
 |
112 |
Francis Perceval Eliot |
less than 5 views |
|
113 |
Hubert Crackanthorpe |
less than 5 views |
|
114 |
Wilfrid Philip Ward |
less than 5 views |
|
115 |
Richard Bagot (writer) |
less than 5 views |
|
116 |
Sir William Cornwallis |
less than 5 views |
|
117 |
Clement King Shorter |
less than 5 views |
|
118 |
Alexander Allen (writer) |
less than 5 views |
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