WRITER

Robert Chambers

1802 - 1871

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Robert Chambers (; 10 July 1802 – 17 March 1871) was a Scottish publisher, geologist, evolutionary thinker, author and journal editor who, like his elder brother and business partner William Chambers, was highly influential in mid-19th-century scientific and political circles. Chambers was an early phrenologist in the Edinburgh Phrenological Society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Chambers has received more than 45,898 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Robert Chambers is the 4,392nd most popular writer (down from 3,345th in 2019), the 3,137th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,476th in 2019) and the 354th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 46k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The King in Yellow
Social life and customs, Fiction, Fiction, horror
1895
In Search of the Unknown
Fiction, science fiction, general
1904
The Hidden Children
Fiction, horror, Fiction, historical, general, New york (n.y.), fiction
1914
The Green Mouse
Fiction, general
1910
The dark star
Open Library Staff Picks, Popular Print Disabled Books
1917
In Secret
World war, 1914-1918, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Classic Literature
The case in question concerned a letter in a yellow envelope, which was dumped along with other incoming mail upon one of the many long tables where hundreds of women and scores of men sat opening and reading thousands of letters for the Bureau of P. C. - whatever that may mean.
1919

Page views of Robert Chambers by language

Over the past year Robert Chambers has had the most page views in the with 3,085 views, followed by English (2,695), and French (2,265). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (73.49%), Egyptian Arabic (41.22%), and Esperanto (37.44%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert Chambers ranks 4,392 out of 7,302. Before him are Manuel Machado, Garlieb Merkel, Arthur Golden, Raphael Holinshed, Anne Bradstreet, and Olivier de Serres. After him are Franz von Schober, Mario Rigoni Stern, Roderich Menzel, Charles Brockden Brown, Richard Steele, and Graham Swift.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Robert Chambers ranks 48. Before him are Adolphe Niel, August Friedrich Pott, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg, Yuriy Venelin, and Eugène Flachat. After him are Nicholas Wiseman, David Octavius Hill, Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Dorothea Dix, Manuel María Lombardini, and Alexander Odoevsky. Among people deceased in 1871, Robert Chambers ranks 55. Before him are Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Stand Watie, İbrahim Şinasi, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Alexander Serov, and Castro Alves. After him are Paul Kane, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Jan Jacob Rochussen, Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, Paolo Savi, and Jeanne Villepreux-Power.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Chambers ranks 3,137 out of 8,785. Before him are Johnny Herbert (1964), Raphael Holinshed (1529), Anne Bradstreet (1612), Pete Ham (1947), Jamie Carragher (1978), and Lady Arbella Stuart (1575). After him are Christopher Eccleston (1964), Martin Birch (1948), John Steel (1941), Max Newman (1897), Graham Swift (1949), and Alan Baddeley (1934).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Robert Chambers ranks 354. Before him are Andrew Marvell (1621), William Thoms (1803), Brian O'Nolan (1911), M. R. James (1862), Raphael Holinshed (1529), and Anne Bradstreet (1612). After him are Graham Swift (1949), Radclyffe Hall (1880), Philip Reeve (1966), Sophie Kinsella (1969), Rosemary Sutcliff (1920), and Quentin Crisp (1908).

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