Peter Quennell
b. 1905 – d. 1993 · 74 books
Biography
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*
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*
Books by Peter Quennell
Past We Share
Past We Share
Profane Virtues; Four Studies
Profane Virtues; Four Studies of the Eighteenth Century
Singular Preference
Singular Preference
Victorian Panorama, a Survey o
Victorian Panorama, a Survey of Life and Fashion from Contemporary Photographs
Byron - The Years of Fame
time exposure
Byron
Mayhew's London Underground
Mayhew's London Underground
Mayhew's London Underworld
Mayhew's London Underworld (Ce
Mayhew's London Underworld (Century Lives and Letters)
Illustrated Companion to World
Illustrated Companion to World Literature
The Last Edwardians
Customs and characters
Affairs of the mind
Genius in the drawing-room
Genius in the drawing-room
The wanton chase
Vladimir Nabokov, his life, his work, his world
Splendor in exile
History of English Literature
History of English Literature (Merriam)
The marble foot
En torno a Marcel Proust
En torno a Marcel Proust
Samuel Johnson, His Friends and Enemies
Casanova in London
Marcel Proust, 1871-1922
Baudelaire and the symbolists
Romantic England; Writing and Painting, 1717-1851
Alexander Pope; the education of genius, 1688-1728
Byron A Self-Portrait Letters
Byron A Self-Portrait Letters and Diaries 1798-1824 Volume II
John Ruskin (Bibliographical s
John Ruskin (Bibliographical series of supplements to British book news on writers and their work)
BRITAIN IN VIEW. INTRODUCED BY
BRITAIN IN VIEW. INTRODUCED BY PETER QUENNELL. PRODUCED FOR THE NATIONAL TRUST BY KODAK LIMITED
Londons Underworld
Londons Underworld
Mayhews Characters
Mayhews Characters
Edward Lear In Southern Italy.
Edward Lear In Southern Italy. Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria and the Kingdom of Naples
The Journals of Thomas Moore
The Journals of Thomas Moore
Shakespeare, a biography
Shakespeare, a biography
BYRONIC THOUGHTS - MAXIMS, REF
BYRONIC THOUGHTS - MAXIMS, REFLECTIONS, PORTRAITS
Londons Underworld Being Selec
Londons Underworld Being Selections From
Sign of a Fish
Sign of a Fish
Byron Selected Verse & Prose W
Byron Selected Verse & Prose Works Inclu
Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
Byron in Italy (Compass Books)
Hogarth's progress [Book]
Hogarth's progress [Book]
The singular preference
Spring in Sicily
The singular preference portra
The singular preference portraits & essays
The Singular Preference; Portr
The Singular Preference; Portraits And Essays
Byron in Italy
History today
History today
BYRON : A SELF-PORTRAIT : LETT
BYRON : A SELF-PORTRAIT : LETTERS AND DIARIES 1798 TO 1824
BYRON A SELF PORTRAIT 1798- 18
BYRON A SELF PORTRAIT 1798- 1824
Byron a Self Portrait Volume 2
Byron a Self Portrait Volume 2
BYRON. A SELF PORTRAIT. LETTER
BYRON. A SELF PORTRAIT. LETTERS AND DIARIES 1798-1824.
London's Underworld, Being Sel
London's Underworld, Being Selections From "Those That Will Not Work" the Fourth Volume of London Labour and the London Poor
The pleasures of Pope
The pleasures of Pope
John Ruskin - The Portrait Of A Prophet
The pleasure of pope
The pleasure of pope
Aspects of seventeenth century verse;
Four Portraits. Studies of the
Four Portraits. Studies of the Eighteenth century
Four Portraits Studies of the 18th Century
FOUR PORTRAITS STUDIES OF THE
FOUR PORTRAITS STUDIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH
The Profane Virtues
The Profane Virtues-Studies of
The Profane Virtues-Studies of Boswell, Gibbon, Sterne Wilkes
Caroline of England
Caroline of England. An Augustan Portrait
Sympathy and other stories
Sympathy and other stories
A letter to Mrs. Virginia Wool
A letter to Mrs. Virginia Woolf
A superficial journey through Tokyo and Peking
Inscription on a fountain-head
Inscription on a fountain-head
Mr. T.S. Eliot
Mr. T.S. Eliot
Masques & poems
Masques and poems
London's Underworld by Henry M
London's Underworld by Henry Mayhem
Mayhew's London by Henry Mayhe
Mayhew's London by Henry Mayhew
Mayhew's Characters
Mayhew's Characters