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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	George Orwell	7,719
2	Christopher Hitchens	7,043
3	Bertrand Russell	5,958
4	Virginia Woolf	5,410
5	Francis Bacon	5,236
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
17	Matthew Arnold	956
18	John Dryden	842
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
25	Charles Lamb (writer)	325
26	William Cobbett	246
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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