Author:William Chambers (1800-1883)

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William Chambers
(1800–1883)

William Chambers

Works

• Tracings of the North of Europe
• A History of the Gipsies
• The Book of Scotland (1830)
• A Gazetteer of Scotland (1832), in 2 vols., co-authored with Robert Chambers
• Tour in Holland and the Rhine Countries (1839)
• Glenormiston (1849)
• Fiddy, an Autobiography of a Dog (1851)
• Things as they are in America (1854) [1]
• Peebles and its Neighbourhood (1856)
• American Slavery and Colour (1857)
• Something of Italy (1862)
• A History of Peeblesshire (1864) [2]
• About Railways (1866)
• Wintering at Mentone (1870)
• Youth's Companion and Counsellor (1870)
• France, its History and Revolutions (1871) [3]
• Ailie Gilroy, a Scottish Story (1872)
• Memoir of Robert Chambers; with autobiographic reminiscences of William Chamber (1872) [4]
• Biography, Exemplary and Instructive (1873) [5]
• A Week at Welwyn (1873)
• Kindness to Animals (1877)
• Stories of Old Families and Remarkable Persons (1878), in 2 vols.
• Story of a Long and Busy Life (1882) [6]

As publisher

• Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 1st issue 4 Feb. 1832.
• Chambers's Information for the People (1833)
• Chambers's Educational Course (1835)
• Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts
• Chambers's Encyclopædia (1859–68), in 10 vols.

Works about Chambers

• "Chambers, William (1800-1883)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Chambers, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Chambers, Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911), article includes a biography of his brother William