Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch 's Oxford Book of English Verse, published the year before Later Poems, helped to make two of AM 's poems known to every schoolboy. These were Renouncement and The Lady of the Lambs.

Not all IP 's writing went into her printed volume. She was believed to be the author of two songs which became popular: Crook and Plaid and (the most famous among her works) Ca' the...

Without children of his own, Barrie had a habit of monopolising the children of friends, for whom he invented elaborate games. Among children so situated were Bevil Quiller-Couch (who was later the fiancé of the...

One of MC 's three best friends was almost certainly Bevil Quiller-Couch , son of her father's ex-pupil and close friend Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch . The father, called Q, was a leader in the...

He then went back to his Battery to march with them into Germany. He spent two weeks' leave in England with May (and their families) in January 1919, which she called heaven on earth...

At their fifth meeting he asked her to marry him. She was not in love. She agonised about her love for Bevil; she wrote with tears to consult Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch . He responded...

MW 's poetry was largely forgotten after her lifetime. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch 's novel Hetty Wesley, 1903, fictionalises her family situation and her rebellion rather than her writing.

She was over-awed at first by the prospect of reading an essay aloud to the eminent Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (who was notorious for addressing as Gentlemen a roomful of students which included women—who were, however...

Stopford A. Brooke in his preface notes that the personal intensity of the patriotic poems is unusual for its time, as is the wrath that leads to broken cries in broken metre, as sorrow naturally...

MC wrote, It mattered to me . . . what Q thought of my poems more than anyone except my father .Rouen, April 26 - May 25, 1915 became MC 's best-known work...

DDM was paid ¥125 by Heinemann for this novel, which was an increase since her first book and of which she felt very proud. Many of her family and friends expressed dislike of this novel...

Louis Untermeyer , an early supporter of STW 's poetry, commented favourably on her marked accent,half-modern, half-archaic blend of naivete and erudition, and the low-pitched but tart tone of voice. He also suggested...

She accepted because I knew well enough that the only antidote to pain is work and I loved the Press. This job was a return to the familiar: her old desk, her old colleagues...

DDM 's Castle Dor, her completion of an unfinished novel by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch , was published by J. M. Dent .

After her father died, on 15 December 1919, MC 's mother left Magdalen Gate House in Oxford. MC seems to have lived an unsettled life, spending time at Fowey with Q , then at Penzance...