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Thomas de Quincey (15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).
He was born in 86 Cross Street, Manchester, England. His father was a successful businessman with an interest in literature who died when Thomas was quite young. Soon after Thomas's birth the family went to The Farm and then later to Greenhay, a larger country house near Manchester. In 1796 De Quincey's mother, now a widow, moved to Bath...
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