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Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey
Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (d. 1859)

Thomas Penson De Quincey was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West.

15 August 1785

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