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Sister Nivedita

1867 - 1911

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Sister Nivedita (Bengali pronunciation: [bhagini nibedita] born Margaret Elizabeth Noble; 28 October 1867 – 13 October 1911) was an Irish teacher, author, social activist, school founder and disciple of Swami Vivekananda. She spent her childhood and early youth in Ireland. She was engaged to marry a Welsh youth, but he died soon after their engagement. Sister Nivedita met Swami Vivekananda in 1895 in London and travelled to Calcutta (present-day Kolkata), India, in 1898. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sister Nivedita is the 2,371st most popular writer (down from 1,570th in 2019), the 2,013th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,209th in 2019) and the 228th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Sister Nivedita ranks 2,371 out of 7,302Before her are Matthías Jochumsson, Guido Guinizelli, Fritz Gerlich, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Ana Blandiana, and Henri Meilhac. After her are Asadi Tusi, Silva Kaputikyan, Annie Proulx, Alexandre Exquemelin, Michel de Ghelderode, and Xenophon of Ephesus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Sister Nivedita ranks 73Before her are Amy Beach, Julien Benda, Arthur Rackham, Winsor McCay, Anathon Aall, and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.. After her are Emil Krebs, Konstantin Balmont, Hiranuma Kiichirō, Nilo Peçanha, Vera Yevstafievna Popova, and Holger Pedersen. Among people deceased in 1911, Sister Nivedita ranks 37Before her are Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, Frances Harper, Heinrich Hofmann, Maurice Rouvier, Jack Daniel, and James Curtis Hepburn. After her are Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Félix Ziem, Georg Hilmar, Christian Bohr, Sam Loyd, and Édouard André.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sister Nivedita ranks 2,013 out of 8,785Before her are Paul Gallagher (1954), William Smith (1813), Michael Anderson (1920), Rachel Ward (1957), William Elford Leach (1791), and William Buckland (1784). After her are Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886), Alan Walker (1997), Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854), Wallace Hartley (1878), Herbert Pitman (1877), and Andrew Parker Bowles (1939).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Sister Nivedita ranks 228Before her are Orderic Vitalis (1075), Ouida (1839), Mary Astell (1666), John Fletcher (1579), Kenneth Grahame (1859), and William Smith (1813). After her are John Marston (1576), Noël Coward (1899), James Boswell (1740), Irvine Welsh (1957), Arnold Wesker (1932), and Eric Knight (1897).