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
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Spouses
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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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