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Peter Quennell was a British biographer, historian, travel writer, essayist, poet, and critic. Some of his prominent works include Masques & Poems, Inscription on a Fountainhead, Baudelaire and the Symbolists: Five Essays, Memoirs of the Comte de Gramont (Anthony Hamilton), The Phoenix Kind, A Superficial Journey through Tokyo and Peking, A Letter to Mrs. Virginia Woolf, Byron, Victorian Panorama: a survey of life & fashion from contemporary photographs, Sympathy, Caroline of England: An Augustan Portrait, Brown the Bear: Who scared the villagers out of their wits, Byron In Italy, Byron: the Years of Fame, John Ruskin, The Portrait of a Prophet, The Pleasures Of Pope, Mayhew’s London, Byron: A Self-Portrait - Letters and Diaries 1798-1824, Spring In Sicily, Diversions of History, Hogarth\'s Progress, The Sign of the Fish, Byronic Thoughts: Maxims Reflections Portraits From the Prose and Verse of Lord Byron, The Girls, A Tetraology of Novels : The Girls, Pity for Women, The Hippograf & The Lepers, and The Colosseum - a History of Rome from the Time of Nero. He attended Berkhamsted Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford. He taught at the University of Tokyo. He was the editor of Cornhill Magazine and the founder-editor of History Today.