Thomas De Quincey
Novelist, Author
1785 – 1859
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Who was Thomas De Quincey?
Thomas Penson De Quincey was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West.
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- Born
- Aug 15, 1785
Manchester - Also known as
- de Thomas Quincey
- Thomas Penson De Quincey
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Margaret De Quincey
(1816 - 1837)
- Margaret De Quincey
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Brasenose College, Oxford
- Worcester College, Oxford
- University of Oxford
- Manchester Grammar School
- Died
- Dec 8, 1859
Edinburgh
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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