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	Books \| Out from the cold
		Robb is under no illusions about the force of residual antipathy to homosexuality, but he makes one feel how far we have come in the past 30 years.
		Robb deals with Wilde's trial in a few well-judged pages, showing incidentally that the notorious Labouchere Amendment of 1885 in fact made no difference to the rate of prosecutions for indecency, and that had Wilde been convicted at any time in the previous 200 years he would probably have received the same sentence.
		It is one of Robb's points, none the less, that the shadow of the Wilde case stretches far over the 20th century, an era glimpsed beyond his survey as a kind of Dark Ages for homosexuals.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4802384-99937,00.html (1270 words)

	Welcome to The Law Offices of W. Robb Graham -- Army Medical Malpractice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Graham is a contingency fee lawyer, contingent fee attorney, sometimes misspelled laywer or atorney and attorny as well as laywers in addition to atorneys.
		Robb Graham is an attorney and his firm handles cases for individuals under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
		Graham is a contingency fee lawyer, contingent fee attorney, sometimes misspelled lawyer or atorney and attorny as well as laywers in addition to atorneys.
	www.armymalpractice.net /index.php (4644 words)

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		Thanks to generous support from both sides of the family, the Robbs are able to vacation in Nantucket every summer and send their sons to private school while still saving for college and retirement.
		Graham was angry that she didn't get a breakdown of the price of the carpet and the installation charges, figuring that he could have put in the carpet himself and saved some money.
		Graham: I wish that we could just sit down and figure it out in a mathematical, logical way, rather than worrying about who is winning the point or not winning the point or getting their way.
	www.phillymag.com /Archives/2001Oct/401k_1.html (1147 words)

	The evidence of gay culture's 'lost heritage'
		Robb's introduction (aptly titled "Prejudice") explains how outward "behaviour towards gay men and women has changed enormously, but private ideas about homosexuality are much what they were 200 years ago."
		Robb does mention the notoriouscase of two Edinburgh schoolmistresses accused of engaging in sexual behavior, who were found innocent because the judges ruled "it is 'even doubtful if it [female homosexuality] can exist.' " (This case probably became the impetus for Lillian Hellman's drama "The Children's Hour.")
		Robb beautifully sums up the flourishing of gay culture that existed long before anyone marched in the streets for gay pride.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/01/RVGQJ4FFKU1.DTL&type=printable (905 words)

	Welcome to The Law Offices of W. Robb Graham -- Navy Medical Malpractice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Graham or his firm is by a written attorney retainer agreement signed both by the client and by Mr.
		Graham concentrates on serious injury cases, e.g., quadriplegia and paraplegia cases or any other spinal cord injury case, as well as wrongful death litigation sometimes misspelled wrongfull death.
		Graham is licensed to practice only in the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and does not seek cases outside the state of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, except to the extent that the cases may properly be filed in of New Jersey and Pennsylvania,.
	www.navymalpractice.com /index.php (4644 words)

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		Robb is under no illusions about the force of residual antipathy towards homosexuality, but he makes one feel how far we have come in the past 30 years.
		Robb deals with Wilde’s trial in a few well-judged pages, showing that the notorious Labouchère Amendment of 1885 in fact made no difference to the rate of prosecutions for indecency, and that had Wilde been convicted at any time in the previous 200 years, he would probably have received the same sentence.
		But, as Robb shows, the forcible outing occasioned by the publicity was a kind of liberation for De Custine, who was ostracised by the fashionable but gained a licence of sorts to live as he wanted, to travel and to write his masterpiece, La Russie en 1839 (A Journey for Our Time).
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /art/2004/2004jan/040116-vanished.html (982 words)

	Robb, Graham. Victor Hugo.
		Neither the hagiography of Hugo's idolaters nor the slander of his rivals distracts Robb, who has scoured previously unavailable documents, correspondence, and journals (including an encrypted private journal tracking a frenetic sex life) to expose the inner tensions that made Hugo's private life painful, his politics perplexing, and his poetry powerful.
		Robb confronts the duplicities in Hugo's marital and family life and the inconsistencies in his political career with unflinching honesty.
		But it is in his treatment of Hugo's poetry, fiction, and drama that Robb most excels, as he penetrates the process through which imagination transforms the confusions of life into the radiance of art.
	archive.ala.org /booklist/v94/adult/fe2/24robb.html (190 words)

	The Richmond Review, Book Review, Rimbaud by Graham Robb reviewed by Gregor Milne - 0330488031
		Robb's talent for marrying Rimbaud's intellectual and social progress beneath the umbrella of concise but satisfactory historical elucidation is well-balanced and often intriguing.
		Robb's attention to Verlaine's 'revolutionary' disruption of the caesura, and Rimbaud's subsequent reaction to it, is deftly handled, as is Robb's implication that the French school-system was the tool by which Rimbaud gained his immense stylistic and intellectual discipline.
		Robb carefully reveals the more than respectable profits Rimbaud made in his African trading exploits, as opposed to the apparent bankruptcy suggested by other biographers, while painting a picture of a man happiest when complaining about his 'miserable' situation.
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /books/rimbaud.html (940 words)

	Bookreporter.com - RIMBAUD: A Biography by Graham Robb
		Graham Robb's RIMBAUD: A Biography is the definitive life study of the great Arthur Rimbaud and is quite possibly the best biography out this year.
		Graham Robb casts a brilliant light upon it and writes with passion and with the details that make biographies rich.
		Robb has given us Rimbaud's life in its entirety, and it will be the bench mark for Rimbaud biographies for quite some time, if not all time.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0393049558.asp (748 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Review: Rimbaud by Graham Robb
		As Graham Robb comments in the introduction to this new biography: "Rimbaud's abandonment of poetry in his early 20s has caused more lasting, widespread consternation than the break-up of the Beatles." He then goes on to list the poet's multiple incarnations, his avatars, his devotees, his groupies.
		Robb sets out to question every received idea about Rimbaud; he devotes as much attention to his post-poetic life as to his early years, with the result that the one throws steady light on the other.
		Robb is devoted to his subject, but he is no gullible devotee.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/biography/0,6121,371772,00.html (1359 words)

	Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century - Graham Robb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Robb focuses heavily on elite writing and art for his evidence --these apparently being the most readily available sources -- and because of that, the reader looks in vain for a clear picture of how an average homosexual person in the 19th century might have experienced life.
		It may also be worth pointing out that the sources used by Robb are heavily weighted toward the end of the 19th century, the turn of the century and the early 20th century, and tend to focus on Europe.
		Robb adequately proves his main thesis, which is that a significant body of thought portraying same-sex relations as healthy, normal and praiseworthy was available to at least some individuals in the late 19th century.
	www.cdswap.ws /Content/findonamazonus-Asin-039302038X.html (708 words)

	Books \| 19th-century gay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although Robb credits doctors with giving gays a sense of community, a place to tell their stories, the downside of their diagnoses seems hardly worth it.
		And yet Robb asserts that there were places in Europe where gay life was actively, uninhibitedly lived and gay men and women could meet each other: the docks in Barcelona, the Champs-Élysées in Paris, Broadway and Central Park in New York, and almost anywhere in Naples.
		Robb’s previous biographies of Rimbaud, Hugo, and Balzac were notable for their combination of research and page-turning readability.
	www.portlandphoenix.com /books/top/documents/03843009.asp (790 words)

	There Was Only One Rimbaud
		What Roland Barthes would call the ''figure'' of Rimbaud is the ghost at the banquet of literature: his radical rejection of poetry (not of writing, as Graham Robb makes clear: correspondence from Rimbaud's last 15 years constitutes a significant share of his output) has been appropriated by literary history as his most enduringly poetic act.
		Robb is quite as hard on the academy and its interpretive rituals as on his frequently wacky predecessors in biography: '' 'Une Saison en Enfer' should be read first of all without the dubious aid of a description (including this one).
		Robb's superb book will not supply answers, but it will make such questions irrelevant to a luminous yet explicit vision of the continuous life of a man who willfully placed himself, as De Quincey once said of Coleridge, ''in collision with all the interests that were in the sunshine of the world.''
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/11/19/reviews/001119.19howardt.html (1109 words)

	Graham Robb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Graham Robb (born 1958) is a British author.
		Robb was born in Manchester and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Worcester and at Exeter College, Oxford where he studied Modern Languages.
		He won the 1997 Whitbread Book Award for best biography (Victor Hugo) and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Rimbaud in 2001.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Graham_Robb (103 words)

	Arts and Entertainment - featuring articles of local interest, restaurant reviews, movie reviews and a Missoula events ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Robb credits doctors who studied homosexuality as a medical phenomenon with providing gays a sense of community, a place to tell their stories.
		And yet, Robb asserts, there were places where gay life was actively lived, and where cruising gay men could meet each other: the docks in Barcelona, the Champs-Elysees in Paris, Broadway and Central Park in New York, almost anywhere in Naples.
		To enjoy it fully, one must appreciate the thoroughness with which Robb is covering his bases, tracking the development of both medical and psychological arguments that were eventually disproved—and deemed discriminatory—in the 20th century.
	www.everyweek.com /AE/News.asp?no=4660 (850 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Rimbaud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Robb's biography inhabits the superlative mode: Rimbaud has been "one of the most destructive and liberating influences on twentieth-century literature", a spiritual soulmate to Patti Smith and Kurt Cobain.
		Where Robb succeeds, is in placing the idea of Rimbaud as poet, in the context of Rimbaud as the man, explorer, trader and polymath.
		Graham Robb has decided to do more than just "print the legend", he has done a great deal of research and, even more important, he has thought himself through to a more rational view of the man. The poetic episode becomes an interlude in a life, not the justification of the life.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330488031 (1189 words)

	Book Summary : Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Homosexuals, or "inverts," "sodomites," "uranians," and "pederasts" as they were called, not only had thriving meeting places, but also were able to develop whole networks and communities through the subtle bourgeoning of art, music and the written word.
		Robb tackles the obstacles gay love encountered and the societies it created by talking about the criminal statistics of the period.
		Strangers, is not an easy read - Robb does at times, bombard the reader with a few too many names, dates and citations, which some readers may find a little overwhelming.
	www.any-book.com /summary11/039302038X.htm (556 words)

	Voice Literary Supplement: The Legend of Arthur
		Robb insinuates himself in all walks of Arthur's life, scrutinizing and sensationalizing his every move.
		Robb is best when he cinematically describes the geographic settings of the poet's well-traveled life, from the Ardennes to Abyssinia, and the shifting political and social structures of the 19th century.
		He is adept at scraping some of the dreary lacquer from thrice-told tales, as we see the poet, his family, and acquaintances moving about in fresh light.
	www.villagevoice.com /vls/170/smith.shtml (1058 words)

	Biography of Victor Hugo - French Dramatist
		During his lifetime, Hugo himself was the author of most of the legend that has grown up around him, from his pastoral conception on a mountainside to his heroic republican opposition to Napoleon.
		Robb turns these myths inside out as he searches for the underlying compulsions that led Hugo to obsessively recreate his own history.
		Robb thoroughly and compassionately presents the tangled, sometimes sordid, often ridiculous events of Hugo's life, at the same time commenting knowledgeably on his work.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Theatre/Hugo/hugo.shtml (1269 words)

	Recognition PR - The Team - Graham Robb
		Graham has spent 20 years working in the media and learned his art in commercial and BBC Radio.
		He is a well-known face, having been the voice of Radio Tees in the 1980s, a parliamentary candidate and latterly was a lead spokesperson for the successful ‘North East Says No!’ referendum campaign, as well as regional spokesperson for the Conservative Party.
		Graham was press officer for both the Rt Hon John Major and the Rt Hon William Hague.
	www.recognitionpr.co.uk /theteam-graham.htm (161 words)

	City Pages - Can't Pee Straight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		While Robb credits doctors with giving gays a sense of community, a place to tell their stories, their diagnoses didn't represent a banner achievement of science.
		And yet Robb asserts that there were places in Europe where gay life was actively lived, and gay men and women could meet each other: There were the docks in Barcelona, the Champs-Elysées in Paris, Broadway and Central Park in New York, and almost anywhere in Naples.
		Robb's previous biographies of Rimbaud, Hugo, and Balzac were notable for their combination of research and page-turning prose.
	www.citypages.com /databank/25/1208/article11845.asp (1147 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Rimbaud: A Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The great virtue of Graham Robb's biography is that he pays such close attention to the details of Rimbaud's life as it was actually lived, and doesn't allow the work, or indeed the correspondence, to dictate to him the meaning of it all.
		Robb has a rare talent (Mitford-esque, if I dare say so) for injecting his point of view in a way that is visible but not overly intrusive.
		Robb tells the reader a lot about the Rimbaud myth, and I think that many readers are going to find that much of what they thought they knew was not true.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393049558?v=glance (2532 words)

	Balzac (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In the first major English biography of Honoré de Balzac for over fifty years, Graham Robb has produced a compelling portrait of the great French novelist whose powers of creation were matched only by his self-destructive tendencies.
		Robb shows how Balzac's craving for wealth, fame, and happiness produced a series of harebrained entrepreneurial schemes that took him to the remotest parts of Europe and into a love affair with a Polish countess whom he courted for fifteen years by correspondence.
		Skillfully interweaving the life with the novels, Robb presents Balzac as one of the great tragicomic heroes of the nineteenth century, a man whose influence both in and outside his native France has been, and still is, immense.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/fall95/031387.htm (290 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Victor Hugo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Unintimidated by the epic sweep of Victor Hugo's life (1802-85), British scholar Graham Robb analyzes it with intelligence, wit, and enormous verve.
		Acclaimed biographer Robb (Balzac, 1994) has produced an intensely dramatic biography of Victor Hugo laced with devastating wit and irony, which brings the great Romantic author down to earth from his Olympian heights without reducing him either to a megalomaniac opportunist or to a sheer force of nature.
		Graham Robb's magnificent bio of Victor Hugo has won numerous awards, and deservedly so; Robb has steeped himself in Hugo's works and life.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330337076 (1054 words)

	village voice > books > Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis Crompton; Strangers by Graham Robb; Queer Street by ...
		Robb notes that this idea erases gay history in an attempt to investigate it, and suspiciously parallels the mythologies of previous eras.
		Robb notes that code words such as "lavender aunts, 'musical' young men, crooked fingers and green carnations" grew "almost prehistorically obscure" even in the span of one generation.
		Ironically, because of their deep complexity, Crompton's portraits could equally suggest that the only shared factors persisting across millennia are indeed acts and desires, not identities.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0406/halter.php (586 words)

	VICTOR HUGO, de Graham Robb - Editora Record
		Robb apresenta, a quem não conhece, o lado político do grande escritor, que foi deputado da Segunda República, partidário de Luís Napoleão, que partiu para as barricadas e o exílio quando este se declarou imperador e rejeitou a anistia oferecida em 1859.
		Em VICTOR HUGO, Graham Robb humaniza o mito e revela as contradições existentes num homem que vivia entre uma imensa energia criativa e uma massacrante desilusão consigo mesmo.
		Graham Robb estudou nos Estados Unidos, na França e Inglaterra e se formou nas Universidades de Vanderbilt e Oxford, especializando-se em literatura francesa do século XIX.
	penazul2001.sites.uol.com.br /editoras/record/hugo.htm (660 words)

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