His presence later haunts the man's dreams. The MalayĪ Malaysian sailor who comes to De Quincey's door (presumably to beg) one day when he is living in the mountains. Buchanĭe Quincey’s doctor, who condones his laudanum use so long as he does not exceed 25 ounces. The late Duke of –––Ĭharles Howard, the Eleventh Duke of Norfolk, and a good friend of De Quincey’s during his early opium-eating period from 1804-1812. She takes care of him faithfully when he is suffering from illness and opium withdrawals. It was later found that this was the Earl of Desart.
Earl of –––Ī young earl and friend of De Quincey’s who agrees to cosign a loan for him.
He later agrees to lend De Quincey money when the latter is at university. DellĪ Jewish moneylender who initially refuses to lend to De Quincey because he doubts De Quincey's identity.
He remembers her for the rest of his life and tries to trace her in later years, but he never finds out what happened to her after he left London for the first time. AnnĪ fifteen-year-old prostitute who helps De Quincey when he is starving. De Quincey tried to trace her in later years but never found out what happened to her after she grew up. He describes her as “neither pretty, nor quick in understanding, nor remarkably pleasing in manners” (20). They bond when he promises to keep her safe from the ghosts she believes haunt the building. When De Quincey moved into the vacant building in London, he found a little girl of about ten years old living there. He owned the building where De Quincey stayed as a young man in London. She used to work as a lady’s maid in a bishop’s household and is very proud of this distinction. Bettyĭe Quincey’s landlord at the inn in Bangor. He initially begins to take opium as a pain reliever for various ailments, but his addiction to it threatens his mental health and his writing career. After he runs away from boarding school at 17, he spends several years living in poverty on the streets of London before attending university at Oxford.
De Quincey is the son of a wealthy merchant, and although his father died when he was seven, De Quincey is able to live in relative wealth for most of his youth. The author and narrator of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
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