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Peter Quennell

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Gender Male
Death31 years ago
Date of birth March 9,1905
Zodiac sign Pisces
Born Bickley
Bromley
United Kingdom
Date of died October 27,1993
DiedLondon
United Kingdom
Job Poet
Author
Biographer
Literary critic
Children Sarah Quennell
Alexander Quennell
Current partner Marilyn Kerr
Sonia Geraldine Leon
Grandparents Alan Courtney
Parents C. H. B. Quennell
Marjorie Quennell
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Byron; the years of fame
The Colosseum
Byron in Italy
The marble foot
Hogarth's progress
Who's who in Shakespeare
Four portraits
The pursuit of happiness
The wanton chase
Casanova in London
A History of English Literature
Romantic England
A superficial journey through Tokyo and Peking
The sign of the fish
Customs and characters
Samuel Johnson; his friends and enemies
John Ruskin, the portrait of a prophet
The Profane Virtues: Four Studies of the Eighteenth Century
Caroline of England
Victorian panorama
The singular preference
Baudelaire and the Symbolists: Five Essays
The Selected Essays of Cyril Connolly
Four Portraits: Boswell, Sterne, Gibbon, and Wilkes
Alexander Pope: The Education of Genius 1688-1728
To Lord Byron: Feminine Profiles Based Upon Unpublished Letters, 1807-1824
An Illustrated Companion to World Literature
Aspects of seventeenth century verse
Quotations from Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
The Last Edwardians: An Illustrated History of Violet Trefusis & Alice Keppel : Selections from an Exhibition Prepared by and Held at The Boston Athenaeum November 4 Through December 6, 1985 and at the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Whitehall Mansion, Palm Beach, Florida, March 11 Through April 13, 1986
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Sir Peter Courtney Quennell CBE was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. He wrote extensively on social history.

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