# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cornelia-knight
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:18:26.454Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cornelia-knight"
name: "Cornelia Knight"
slug: "cornelia-knight"
description: "Ellis Cornelia Knight was an English gentlewoman, traveller, landscape artist, and writer of novels, verse, journals, and history. She had the acquaintance of many prominent figures in her lifetime, from members of the circle of Samuel Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds in her girlhood; Cardinal de Bernis, Sir William and Lady Emma Hamilton, and Lord Horatio Nelson during her Italian sojourn; and members of the British Royal Family during her service to Queen Charlotte and Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales. She corresponded with or met other writers of her time including Frances Burney, Germaine de Staël, Lady Charlotte Bury, and Jane Porter."
tagline: "English writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ellis_Cornelia_Knight%2C_by_Angelica_Kauffmann.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1757"
deathDate: "1837-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.938049333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%AA"
    title: "كورنيليا كنيجت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Knight"
    title: "Cornelia Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Cornelia_Knight"
    title: "Ellis Cornelia Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Knight"
    title: "Cornelia Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3723540"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump