![]() De Quincey's mother was a woman of strong character and intelligence but seems to have inspired more awe than affection in her children. His youth was spent in solitude, and when his elder brother, William, came home, he wrought havoc in the quiet surroundings. That same year, De Quincey's mother moved to Bath and enrolled him at King Edward's School. In 1796, three years after the death of his father, Thomas Quincey, his mother – the erstwhile Elizabeth Penson – took the name "De Quincey". ![]() Soon after his birth, the family went to The Farm and then later to Greenheys, a larger country house in Chorlton-on-Medlock near Manchester. ![]() His father, a successful merchant with an interest in literature, died when De Quincey was quite young. Thomas Penson De Quincey was born at 86 Cross Street, Manchester, Lancashire. Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West. Thomas Penson De Quincey ( / d ə ˈ k w ɪ n s i/ 15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). ![]() " On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" Thomas de Quincey by Sir John Watson-Gordon ![]()
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