[1785] - De Quincey born, Manchester

Useful Links and Further Reading

• Robert Morrison, ‘Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)’,
  http://www.queensu.ca/english/tdq/
• Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum, ‘Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)’,
  http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/history/index.asp?pageid=105&sectionid=99
• Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum, ‘Confessions of an English Opium Eater’,
  http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/history/index.asp?pageid=163
• Biographies, ‘Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)’,
  http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/DeQuincey.htm
• The Literary Gothic, ‘Thomas De Quincey’,
  http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/authors.html
• National Portrait Gallery, ‘Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)’,
  http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?search=ss&sText=de+quincey&LinkID=mp01259
• Project Gutenberg, ‘Confessions of an English Opium-Eater’,
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2040
• Daniel O’Quinn, ‘Ravishment Twice Weekly: De Quincey’s Opera Pleasures’, Romanticism on the Net, 34–5 (2004),
  http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2004/v/n34–35/009436ar.html
• John O. Hayden, ‘De Quincey’s Confessions and the Reviewers’, The Wordsworth Circle, 6 (1975), 273–9
• Robert Woof, Thomas De Quincey: An English Opium-Eater (Grasmere, 1985)
• John Barrell, The Infection of Thomas De Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism (Yale, CT, 1991)
• Charles Rzepka, ‘De Quincey and the Malay: Dove Cottage Idolatry’, The Wordsworth Circle, 24 (1993), 180–5
• Margaret Russett, De Quincey’s Romanticism: Canonical Minority and the Forms of Transmission (Cambridge, 1997)
• Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Thomas De Quincey: New Theoretical and Critical Directions (Abingdon, 2008)
• Robert Morrison, The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey (London, 2009)