Acknowledgments

Thanks to the Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, England, for permission to use the James Archer portrait of Thomas De Quincey with his daughters Emily and Margaret and his granddaughter Eva.

Thanks also to Donna Morrell, Ali Karim, Jeff Cowton, Carl Morris, Jean and Martin Norgate, and lakelovers.co.uk for permission to use various photographs.