I'm doing a research paper on the effect of opium on british culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. Does anyone happen to know any authors or poets who were known to smoke opium? Or just famous people? Thanks. If anyone has a link to a site descibing the effect of opium on british literature that'd be marvelous or a paper even
Laudanum (a liquid morphine) was quite popular among authors all over the world in the 19th century (and it is said, that a laudanum trip inspired Mary Shelley to write "Frankenstein").
Yea, there was a book about an opium addict, i think it was "confessions of an english opium eater" I might have the title off by a couple words, might not even be english, i forget.
