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Adelaide Anne Procter

1825 - 1864

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Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist. Her literary career began when she was a teenager, her poems appearing in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round, and later in feminist journals. Her charity work and her conversion to Roman Catholicism influenced her poetry, which deals with such subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women, among whom she performed philanthropic work. Procter was the favourite poet of Queen Victoria. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adelaide Anne Procter is the 5,193rd most popular writer (down from 5,177th in 2019). (down from 4,072nd in 2019)

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Among writers, Adelaide Anne Procter ranks 5,193 out of 7,302. Before her are Fedde Schurer, Yamabe no Akahito, Alexander Ablesimov, Milan Rúfus, Charlaine Harris, and Edith Sitwell. After her are Petr Bezruč, Henryk Rzewuski, Peter Scholl-Latour, Brian Lumley, Kedarnath Singh, and Nicolaas Beets.

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Among people born in 1825, Adelaide Anne Procter ranks 79. Before her are George Pickett, Richard Maack, Anton Heinrich Springer, Francisco Antonino Vidal, Albrecht Weber, and Aleksey Pleshcheyev. After her are A. P. Hill, William McGonagall, James Collinson, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, George Inness, and Francisco Linares Alcántara. Among people deceased in 1864, Adelaide Anne Procter ranks 64. Before her are Nassau William Senior, Gonçalves Dias, Roger B. Taney, Gaetano Bedini, Jacques Jasmin, and José Justo Corro. After her are Juris Alunāns, Alexander Vostokov, William T. Anderson, John Clare, Robert Torrens, and Benjamin Silliman.

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