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Persons

Name
Gender
Year of birth
Year of death
Country/place of birth
Country/place of death
Country/place of residence
11084 persons found.
  • Stuttgart 1800 — Berlin 1868
    Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte
    VIAF
    Full name:  Charlotte Pfeiffer
    Reception count (persons and works):
    149
  • Worcester 1814 — London 1887
    Wood, Ellen
    VIAF
    Full name:  Ellen Wood
    Alternative names:  Ellen Price Wood — Mrs Henry Wood
    Reception count (persons and works):
    146
  • Borås 1819 — Stockholm 1894
    Schwartz, Marie Sophie
    VIAF
    Full name:  Marie Sophie Schwartz
    Alternative names:  Marie Sophie Birath — Maria Schwartz
    Reception count (persons and works):
    141
  • Le Havre 1607 — Paris 1701
    Scudéry, Madeleine de
    VIAF
    Full name:  Madeleine Scudéry
    Alternative names:  Sapho — La Muse du Marais — Magdeleine de Scudéri
    Reception count (persons and works):
    140
  • Germantown (Pennsylvania) 1832 — Boston (Massachusetts) 1888
    Alcott, Louisa May
    VIAF
    Full name:  Louisa May Alcott
    Alternative names:  A.M. Barnard
    Reception count (persons and works):
    139
  • Brighton 1833 — London 1899
    Marryat, Florence
    VIAF
    Full name:  Florence Marryat
    Reception count (persons and works):
    134
  • Thornton (Yorkshire) 1816 — Haworth 1855
    Brontë, Charlotte
    VIAF
    Full name:  Charlotte Brontë
    Alternative names:  Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley — Currer Bell
    Reception count (persons and works):
    131
  • Nevele 1836 — Gent 1923
    Loveling, Virginie
    VIAF
    Full name:  Marie Virginie Loveling
    Alternative names:  W.G.E. Walter — Willebrordus Gerulfus Edmundus Walter
    Reception count (persons and works):
    129
  • Otterbourne 1823 — Otterbourne 1901
    Yonge, Charlotte Mary
    VIAF
    Full name:  Charlotte Mary Yonge
    Reception count (persons and works):
    127
  • Paris 1626 — Grignan 1696
    Sévigné, Marie de
    VIAF
    Full name:  Marie Sévigné
    Alternative names:  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal — Marquise de Sévigné
    Reception count (persons and works):
    120
  • Wien 1820 — Prague 1862
    Němcová, Božena
    VIAF
    Full name:  Božena Panklová
    Alternative names:  Ludmila z Hradku — Stepan Danieli — Bozhena Nemtsova — Barbora Panklova
    Reception count (persons and works):
    120
  • Paris 1634 — Paris 1693
    La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine de
    VIAF
    Full name:  Marie-Madeleine La Fayette
    Alternative names:  Marie-Madeleine de Pioche de la Vergne — Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette
    Reception count (persons and works):
    119
  • Miĺkaŭščyna 1841 — Grodno 1910
    Orzeszkowa, Eliza
    VIAF
    Full name:  Eliza Orzeszkowa
    Alternative names:  Elisa Orzeszko — Eliza Pawlowski
    Reception count (persons and works):
    118
  • King's Lynn 1752 — Bath 1840
    Burney, Frances
    VIAF
    Full name:  Frances Burney
    Alternative names:  Fanny Burney — Madame d'Arblay
    Reception count (persons and works):
    116
  • Paris 1684 — Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1770
    Gomez, Madeleine-Angélique de
    VIAF
    Full name:  Madeleine-Angélique Gomez
    Alternative names:  Madeleine-Angélique Poisson
    Reception count (persons and works):
    110
  • Amsterdam 1649 — Amsterdam 1711
    Lescailje, Katharina
    VIAF
    Full name:  Katharina Lescailje
    Alternative names:  Lescailje, Katharyne — Lescaille, Katharina — Lescaille, Katharyne — Katrijn — Lescailje, Katarina — Lescailje, Kataryne
    Reception count (persons and works):
    109
  • Wien 1769 — Wien 1843
    Pichler, Karoline
    VIAF
    Full name:  Karoline Pichler
    Alternative names:  Karoline von Greiner — Caroline Pichler
    Reception count (persons and works):
    109
  • Požarevac 1881 — Niška Banja 1939
    Janković, Milica
    VIAF
    Full name:  Milica Janković
    Alternative names:  L. Mihajlović — Leposava Mihajlovic
    Reception count (persons and works):
    108
  • Holborn (London) 1764 — London 1823
    Radcliffe, Ann
    VIAF
    Full name:  Ann Ward
    Alternative names:  Ann Ward
    Reception count (persons and works):
    106
  • 1693 — England 1756
    Haywood, Eliza
    VIAF
    Full name:  Eliza Haywood
    Alternative names:  Mira — Exploralibus — Justicia — The Female Spectator — Widow of Quality — Euphrosine — Eliza Fowler
    Reception count (persons and works):
    103
  • Lyon 1730 — Paris 1795
    Benoist, Françoise-Albine
    VIAF
    Full name:  Françoise-Albine Puzin
    Alternative names:  Françoise-Albine Benoit — Françoise-Albine Puzin de La Martinière
    Reception count (persons and works):
    103
  • London 1810 — Holybourne (Hampshire) 1865
    Gaskell, Elizabeth
    VIAF
    Full name:  Elizabeth Stevenson
    Alternative names:  Cotton Mather Mills Esq. — Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell — Elizabeth Stevenson
    Reception count (persons and works):
    103
  • Black Bourton 1767 — Edgeworthstown (Mostrim) 1849
    Edgeworth, Maria
    VIAF
    Full name:  Maria Edgeworth
    Reception count (persons and works):
    103
  • Nancy 1695 — Paris 1758
    Graffigny, Françoise de
    VIAF
    Full name:  Françoise d’Issembourg du Buisson d’Happoncourt
    Alternative names:  Françoise d' Issembourg Du Buisson d'Happoncourt — Françoise de Grafigny
    Reception count (persons and works):
    102
  • Amsterdam 1822 — Den Haag 1904
    Calcar, Elise van
    VIAF
    Full name:  Eliza Carolina Ferdinanda Fleischacker
    Alternative names:  Elise — Elise Caroline Ferdinanda Schiotling — Eliza Fleischacker — Eliza Schiotling — E. — E.S. - g
    Reception count (persons and works):
    102