Peter Quennell

Quennell, Peter

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Sir Peter Courtney Quennell CBE (9 March 1905 – 27 October 1993) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. He wrote extensively on social history. Born in Bickley, Kent, the son of architect (and author/illustrator) C. H. B. Quennell and Marjorie Quennell (historian/author/illustrator), he was educated at Berkhamsted Grammar School and at Balliol College, Oxford. While still at school some of his poems were selected by Richard Hughes for the anthology *Public School Verse*, which brought him to the attention of writers such as Edith Sitwell. In 1922 he published his first book, *Masques and Poems*. This was followed by many other volumes, particularly his *Four Portraits* of 1945 (studies of Boswell, Gibbon, Sterne, and Wilkes), books on London and works on Baudelaire, Byron, Pope, Ruskin , Hogarth, Shakespeare, Proust and Samuel Johnson. He first practised journalism in London. In 1930 he taught at the University of Tokyo. In 1944–51, he was editor of The Cornhill Magazine and from 1951 to 1979 founder-editor of *History Today*. Quennell published two volumes of autobiography, *The Marble Foot* and *Wanton Chase*. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and was knighted in the 1992 New Year Honours. He married five times, and had two children, a daughter (Sarah) from his third marriage and a son (Alexander) from his fifth. He died in London. *--adapted from Wikipedia*

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Byron - The Years of Fame
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Byron
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Who's Who in Shakespeare
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Who's who in Shakespeare
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Hogarth's progress
Representative edition published 1992
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The pursuit of happiness
Representative edition published 1988
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Byron
Representative edition published 1988
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Four portraits
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Mayhew's London Underworld
Representative edition published 1987
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A superficial journey through Tokyo and Peking
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The Last Edwardians
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Memoirs of William Hickey
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Customs and characters
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Shakespeare
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Vladimir Nabokov
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A history of English literature
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The wanton chase
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The wanton chase
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Affairs of the mind
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Vladimir Nabokov, his life, his work, his world
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Splendor in exile
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The marble foot
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The Marble Foot
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My heart laid bare, and other prose writings
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