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	Robert Chambers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Chambers showed an enthusiastic interest in the history and antiquities of Edinburgh, and found a most congenial task in his Traditions of Edinburgh (2 vols., 1824), which secured for him the approval and the personal friendship of Sir Walter Scott.
		Robert Chambers was a scientific geologist, and availed himself of tours in Scandinavia and Canada for the purpose of geological exploration.
		Robert Chambers was aware of the storm that would probably be raised at the time by a rational treatment of the subject, and did not wish to involve his firm in the discredit that a charge of heterodoxy would bring with it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Chambers (1060 words)

	Robert W. Chambers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers (1827 - 1911), a famous lawyer, and Caroline Chambers (née Boughton), a direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, Rhode Island.
		Robert entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student.
		Chambers studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893, and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_W._Chambers (435 words)

	About Robert Chambers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Robert Chambers were born into a relatively prosperous, mill-owning family in the Scottish Borders, and much of their childhood was passed during time of war with the French.
		Robert Chambers had shown an enthusiastic interest in the history and antiquities of Edinburgh and his first literary effort, Traditions of Edinburgh, published in-house in 1824, won him the approval and the personal friendship of Sir Walter Scott, and remains in print to this day.
		The Book of Days, Robert Chambers’ last publication, and perhaps his most elaborate, was a miscellany of popular antiquities associated with the calendar, and many, especially his family, believed that his excessive labor in connection with this book hastened his death.
	www.thebookofdays.com /about_chambers.htm (1472 words)

	Miskatonic University Campus Events
		ROBERT W. Lovecraft was always proud to say he was influenced by the great writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
		Chambers produced forty-five volumes, “veering in accordance with the breeze of popular demand.” According to some estimates, Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status.
		Chambers loved hunting dogs, a beautiful and often half-naked woman in his plot lines, and didn't seem to mind a bit if the critics thought he was too flowery in his description (often excellent but extended).
	www.yankeeclassic.com /miskatonic/dliterature/authors/chambers/bio/rwcbio1.htm (2528 words)

	CHAMBERS - LoveToKnow Article on CHAMBERS
		Robert had been destined for the church, but this design had to be abandoned for lack of means.
		His brother, WILLIAM CHAMBERS (1800-1883) was born at Peebles, on the 16th of April 18oo.
		On his death in 1883 Robert Chambers (1832-1888), son of Robert Chambers, succeeded as head of the firm, and edited the Journal until his death.
	94.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHAMBERS.htm (854 words)

	'Preppie killer' subpoenaed over finances - Boston.com - Nation - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		NEW YORK --"Preppie Killer" Robert Chambers was subpoenaed again Monday by the family of the woman he strangled in 1986, nearly five months after he allegedly ignored orders to answer questions about his finances in a $25 million wrongful-death case.
		Chambers, who was in Manhattan Criminal Court because of his November arrest on misdemeanor drug charges, was handed the subpoena by an attorney for Jennifer Levin's family.
		Chambers was served with two subpoenas on Feb. 3 when he appeared in court on the drug charges, Levin family attorney Michael Barrows said last week.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/06/20/preppie_killer_subpoenaed_over_finances (394 words)

	Chambers publishing firm history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William and Robert Chambers were born into a relatively prosperous, mill-owning family in the Scottish Borders, and much of their childhood was passed during time of war with the French.
		Robert remained in Peebles to finish his education, but William was forced to find work to help support the family, as apprentice to a Mr Sutherland, bookseller, at the very modest sum of 4 shillings a week.
		Robert Chambers died on the 17th of March 1871 at his house on the Scores, in his adopted home of St. Andrews.
	www.edinburgh.gov.uk /libraries/historysphere/chambers/chambers.html (1748 words)

	About Chambers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In fact it was war with the French which brought about a change in the family fortunes, and turned the Chambers brothers from middle-class lads receiving a grammar-school education, into poverty-stricken boys who had to leave school and work to support their family.
		Robert remained in Peebles to finish his education, but William was forced to find work to help support the family.
		Robert was a learned man in his own right, and as well as contributing many of the articles for the Journal, and writing books for his brother to publish, was a leading evolutionist.
	www.chambersharrap.co.uk /chambers/about/index.php (983 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - Preppie Killer arraigned on crack charge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Preppie Killer Robert Chambers, who was released from jail last year, was freed on $1,000 bail Wednesday after being arraigned on charges of driving with a suspended license and possession of crack.
		Chambers, his tall frame much thinner than when he was tried for murder in 1988, fled the courthouse after his arraignment and hurriedly walked with his lawyer, Brian O’Dwyer, to his office three blocks away.
		Robert Chambers, who served 15 years behind bars for strangling 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in Central Park, was busted last night on a driving violation that cops said could lead to drug charges.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/255964p-219189c.html (709 words)

	Robert Chambers
		Chambers had chosen anonymity for a very pragmatic reason: he feared, and with reason, that the controversy over the book would hurt his publishing business.
		Robert Chambers was born in the small town of Peebles in Scotland.
		Robert's main interest was at first Scottish history and folklore; he even wrote a book on Scottish humor.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/chambers.html (747 words)

	CNN.com - Valentine's Day release for 'preppie killer' - Feb. 13, 2003
		Robert Chambers, dubbed the "preppie killer" by the New York media covering his trial, will exit an upstate prison Friday after serving the maximum time on his manslaughter conviction for killing Jennifer Levin August 26, 1986.
		Chambers was about a month short of his 20th birthday when he was charged with murdering Levin.
		Jurors were in their ninth day of deliberations when Chambers opted to take a deal, pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter in return for a 15-year jail term.
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/02/13/chambers.release (538 words)

	Rocky Road: Robert Chambers
		Although early speculation pointed at Ada Lovelace as the author, Robert Chambers was the real culprit.
		A conservative Tory in his youth, Chambers eventually became a liberal Whig and a deist.
		Although some were corrected in later editions, his publisher was dismayed to learn that Chambers didn't have the knowledge to make many corrections himself; he had to rely on others for help.
	www.strangescience.net /chambers.htm (455 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		CHAMBERS: And she freaked out and she just, she like got up and knelt in front of me and she just scratched my face, and I have these marks I didn't even notice them until this morning.
		Robert Chambers was invited to appear or make a statement for this program, and declined.
		Chambers, you pled guilty to manslaughter in the first degree, under indictment #639419-86, manslaughter in the first degree was a lesser included charge.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0208/26/lkl.00.html (6762 words)

	The Story Of The Summer Of '86 - CBS News
		Chambers and Levin had dated before and met the night of Aug. 25 at Dorrian’s Red Hand, a bar that catered to the sons and daughters of the rich.
		Chambers became a suspect within hours when police interviewed him, as they had Levin's other friends, about what she had been doing the previous night.
		But as part of the agreement, Chambers had to admit in open court that he intended to hurt Jennifer when he killed her.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/02/26/48hours/main542149.shtml (708 words)

	Robert W. Chambers Book Index
		Chambers was never able to return to the true madness of this his second work.
		Chambers states that he saw the records of the Commune and interviewed members of both sides of the conflict.
		Chambers before 1900 was a force to be reckoned with in weird literature.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/goldendawn/31/rwc-data.html (5633 words)

	Edinburgh Geologist - Robert Chambers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By the 1840s, Chambers was co-proprietor, with his brother William, of W. and R. Chambers, publishers of Chambersís Edinburgh Journal and a variety of other productions for Victorian families and institutions, not least their Dictionary which is still going strong.
		Chambers (see portrait) liked to push good old Scots and new Victorian self-improvement in his publications, and, as a young, struggling freelance journalist, Hugh Miller for one was grateful for his encouragement.
		Chambers had already been roughly handled at the British Association meeting in the previous year when he presented his ideas - but the scientists had other reasons not to be pleased with him (Secord 2000).
	www.edinburghgeolsoc.org /z_39_07.html (1268 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Yellow Sign and Other Stories
		Here Chambers' main character is a male zoologist who goes around capturing all sorts of odd or mythical creatures, while avoiding entanglements with members of the opposite sex, ranging from scientists' pretty young daughters and pretty young scientific assistants, zoo administrators who are overbearing battleaxes, and scantily-clad blubbering cave women in the wilds of Florida:
		Chambers, besides being a well trained artist, was certainly an avid outdoorsman and a very competent amateur naturalist, even writing some Nature books for children (apparently amongst his rarest works).
		Chambers' descriptions of wild locales, particularly the forests of the Northeastern United States, and the wild, barren landscapes of Brittany show both his artists' eye and his obvious appreciation for the grandeur of Nature.
	www.sfsite.com /01a/ys95.htm (1600 words)

	A Killing in Central Park: The Preppy Murder Case
		Later, when her son Robert was born, whom she believed to be talented and destined for bigger things, she focused all her attention upon him.
		She sent Robert to the very best schools that she could afford although she did not have a high paying job.
		Robert Chambers as a teenager was an attractive young man. Standing 6'4" and weighing two hundred pounds, he often towered over his friends at the bars.
	www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/not_guilty/park/4.html (1065 words)

	The Novels of Robert W. Chambers
		Here is a brief summary of some of the novels of Robert W. Chambers (1865--1933), author of The King in Yellow and many other books.
		Chambers attended Julian's school, and it, along with the École des Beaux Arts, is often featured in his stories.
		To Chambers, at this time, the Germans are truly subhuman entities, bestial creatures who deserve to be snuffed out en masse, preferably by gassing them, soldiers and civilians both, in their underground installations.
	home.salamander.com /~wmcclain/rwc-index.html (1320 words)

	Overview of Robert Chambers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in Peebles, the younger brother of William Chambers (1800-83).
		Chambers' authorship was eventually revealed in the 12th edition of the work (1884).
		Chambers was also the author of many essays and received the an honorary doctorate from St. Andrews University (1863).
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst45.html (174 words)

	Robert Chambers (1802-71)
		Robert Chambers was a prolific journalist of Edinburgh.
		A well-know literary and intellectual figure at his time, he is primarily remembered today as the then secret author of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), a work which caused a great sensation in Victorian Britain.
		Chambers initially intended his book to be a "philosophy of phrenology".
	www.victorianweb.org /science/chambers.html (482 words)

	Robert Chambers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Robert Chambers was a Scottish publisher and popular writer trained especially in geology.
		Chambers' metaphysics, being not typically British (i.e., deistic) was condemned not only by Agassiz and Sedgwick, but also by evolutionists (including Huxley and Darwin).
		Chambers' theory had revived partly the Lamarck's teleology.
	www.natur.cuni.cz /~vpetr/Chambers.htm (235 words)

	New York Daily News - Crime File - Preppie Killer free Friday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roberts, who lives on Long Island, said her family intends to route any money from Chambers to a crime victims' assistance fund that has been set up in Levin's name.
		Chambers, drinking and doing coke in the bar, was sullen when Levin arrived with friends and started flirting with him.
		Roberts, whose three daughters were born after her sister's death, said she hoped women would steer clear of Chambers.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/crime_file/story/58369p-54661c.html (1018 words)

	Anna Katherine Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Robert W. Chambers was an American mainstream, adventure and supernatural writer who is today noted by mystery fans for a single, well done, excursion in their genre, "The Purple Emperor".
		Chambers is perhaps a bit more macho than his female contemporaries, however, in that the physical violence in this tale is a bit more explicitly portrayed.
		Chambers explicitly mentions "the detective story" at one point, contrasting the "real life" of the story with detective fiction; this is another of the many self-reflexive references to detective fiction within detective stories themselves.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/green.htm (12217 words)

	CHAMBERS, ROBERT (18oz... - Online Information article about CHAMBERS, ROBERT (18oz... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ROBERT (18oz-1871), Scottish author and publisher, was See also:
		Robert Chambers was a scientific geologist, and availed himself of See also:
		See also Memoir of Robert Chambers, with Autobiographic Reminiscences of William Chambers (1872), the 13th ed.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CAU_CHA/CHAMBERS_ROBERT_18oz_1871_.html (1304 words)

	Robert Chambers - bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, to Chambers’ audience he was a new and unprecedented thinker who forged the way for Darwin’s public success in the following decades (van Wyhe para1).
		“Robert Chambers (1802-1871).” New Paradigm in Evolutionary Biology and Palaeontology.
		“Robert Chambers (1802-1871).” University of California, Berkley Museum of Paleontology Evolution Wing (19 May 1997).
	athena.english.vt.edu /~jmooney/3044biosa-g/chambers.html (538 words)

	The Deal And The Sentence - CBS News
		In prison, he told Roberts, Chambers was not assaulted in any way.
		Chambers says many of the charges were minor, even trumped up.
		Robert Chambers is a free man now, still being chased by the media, trying, he says, to get on with his life.
	uttm.com /stories/2003/02/26/48hours/main542156.shtml (546 words)

	Chambers, Robert on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Robert Raley, of La Habra, California, grinds a tree stump at a Whittier, California, home on Wednesday, November 5, 2003.
		Robert Raley, of La Habra, California, is shown on April 30, 2003, wearing a headlamp, holding his trekking poles and his nearly fully "ultralight" backpack, in preparation for his hike along the Paci
		Artist Robert Chambers' goal was to trick out Moonman and turn him into a Miami-styled low rider.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/x/x-c1hambersr1.asp (980 words)

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