1. Arthur Quiller-Couch influenced many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff, author of 84, Charing Cross Road and its sequel, Q's Legacy.
16 Facts About Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Arthur Quiller-Couch's The Oxford Book of English Verse was a favourite of John Mortimer fictional character Horace Rumpole.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch was born in the town of Bodmin, Cornwall.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch's grandfather, Jonathan Couch, was a naturalist, physician, historian, classicist, apothecary, and illustrator.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch was educated at Newton Abbot Proprietary College between the late 1870's and early 1880's.
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From 1886, Arthur Quiller-Couch worked for a brief time as a Classics lecturer at Trinity.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch was knighted in 1910, and in 1928 was made a Bard of the Cornish cultural society Gorseth Kernow, adopting the Bardic name Marghak Cough.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch was Commodore of the Royal Fowey Yacht Club from 1911 until his death.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch was president of the Village Drama Society which was based at Kelly House in Devon.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch was well known for his story "The Rollcall of the Reef", based on the wreck of HMS Primrose during 1809 on the Cornish coast.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch published during 1896 a series of critical articles, Adventures in Criticism, and in 1898 he published a completion of Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel, St Ives.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch was appointed King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge in 1912, and retained the chair for the rest of his life.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch's rooms were on staircase C, First Court, and known as the 'Q-bicle'.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch was a noted literary critic, publishing editions of some of Shakespeare's plays and several critical works, including Studies in Literature and On the Art of Reading.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch edited a companion to his verse anthology: The Oxford Book of English Prose, which was published in 1923.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch left his autobiography, Memories and Opinions, unfinished; it was nevertheless published in 1945.