Biggest surprise from the Classics Club List #1:
Of 50 authors on the list (the books with two authors evenly matched the authors with multiple books), 37 were male, 12 were female, and one anonymous (probably male). That's 75% male authors. Wow. I was honestly shocked that the proportion was so skewed.
Second biggest surprise:
Of 50 books, the time periods came out like this:
800s: 1
1100s: 1
1200s: 1
1300s: 1
1400s: 2
1500s: 1
1600s: 3
1700s: 8
1800s: 13
1900s: 18
2000s: 1
So 36% were from the 1900s, and 26% from the 1800s. I'd have sworn they'd be reversed. Some books just barely squeaked into the first years of the 1900s, but in the end, there they were. In a strange coincidence, the earliest-dated book, Asser's Life of King Alfred, from 893, was the very first book I read for the Classics Club.
Not a surprise: rolling the Scottish, Irish, and Welsh in with the English to make a "British" category, we have authors from these countries of origin:
American: 7
British: 27
Canadian: 1
Chinese: 1
French: 5
German: 1
Icelandic: 3
Indian: 1
Japanese: 2
Norwegian: 1
Romanian: 1
So 54% of the writers were British. The next closest, Americans, is only 14%. Even if I broke it out, English writers who were born in England would still be 20 writers, or 40%. That sounds about right, since I was always hardcore Brit Lit.
Of 50 authors on the list (the books with two authors evenly matched the authors with multiple books), 37 were male, 12 were female, and one anonymous (probably male). That's 75% male authors. Wow. I was honestly shocked that the proportion was so skewed.
Second biggest surprise:
Of 50 books, the time periods came out like this:
800s: 1
1100s: 1
1200s: 1
1300s: 1
1400s: 2
1500s: 1
1600s: 3
1700s: 8
1800s: 13
1900s: 18
2000s: 1
So 36% were from the 1900s, and 26% from the 1800s. I'd have sworn they'd be reversed. Some books just barely squeaked into the first years of the 1900s, but in the end, there they were. In a strange coincidence, the earliest-dated book, Asser's Life of King Alfred, from 893, was the very first book I read for the Classics Club.
Not a surprise: rolling the Scottish, Irish, and Welsh in with the English to make a "British" category, we have authors from these countries of origin:
American: 7
British: 27
Canadian: 1
Chinese: 1
French: 5
German: 1
Icelandic: 3
Indian: 1
Japanese: 2
Norwegian: 1
Romanian: 1
So 54% of the writers were British. The next closest, Americans, is only 14%. Even if I broke it out, English writers who were born in England would still be 20 writers, or 40%. That sounds about right, since I was always hardcore Brit Lit.
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