The New Student's Reference Work/Quiller-Couch, A. T.

Quil'ler-Couch', A. T., English novelist, essayist and literary critic, was born in Cornwall in 1863, and early in his career was a classical lecturer at Trinity College, Oxford (1886-7). For the next ten years he was on the staff of The Speaker (London) or connected with it as a contributor. Some of his essays and reviews in The Speaker and elsewhere will be found in a collection under the title of Adventures in Criticism (1896). About ten years earlier he devoted himself to the writing of fiction, many of the characters in his novels, together with much of the scenery and traditions of his native county, treating of Cornwall. Among his novels are Dead Man's Rock; Troy Town; The Mayor of Troy; The Splendid Spur; The Delectable Duchy; The Ship of Stars; Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts; The Adventures of Harry Revel; Hetty Wesley; and Sir John Constantine. In 1904 he published Fort Amity, a story which treats of the stormy days of war with France in Canada. Besides completing Stevenson's unfinished romance of St. Ives and writing a monograph on George Eliot, Mr. Quiller-Couch has issued delightful verses and parodies under the title of Green Bays, with Poems and Ballads and many charming short stories.