Male : Novelist & Man of Letters. Married Louisa Hicks in 1889. Journalist in London he returned to live in Cornwall when his health broke down in 1892, living at 'The Haven' in Fowey until his death

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Bodmin, Cornwall

Date of Birth : 1863 Date of Death : 1944 Age : 81

Pseudonyms : "Q"

Other Work : Professor of Eng Lit at Cambridge from 1912. Mayor of Fowey 1937-8

Education : Newton Abbot College, Clifton College & Trinity College, Oxford

1881-1890
Athens, A Poem (1881 Liddell, Bodmin)
Dead Man's Rock (1887 Cassell)
[This was a very successful novel for him, making him famous]
The Astonishing History of Troy Town (1888 Cassell) - By Q
The Splendid Spur (1889 Cassell)

1891-1895
The Blue Pavilions (1891 Cassell)
Noughts and Crosses : Stories, Studies & Sketches (1891 Cassell)
I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter's Tales (1892 Cassell)
The Warwickshire Avon (1892 Osgood McIlvaine) - cased half-calf
The Delectable Duchy : Stories, Studies & Sketches (1893 Cassell)
Green Bays : Verses and Parodies (1893 Methuen) - by Q
Wandering Heath : Stories, Studies & Sketches (1895 Cassell) - ss
(Ed) The Golden Pomp : A Procession of English Lyrics from Surrey to Shirley (1895 Methuen)
(Ed) Fairy Tales Far and Near (1895 Cassell) - H R Millar

1896-1900
Ia (1896 Cassell)
Poems and Ballads (1896 Methuen)
Adventures in Criticism (1896 Cassell)
(Ed) English Sonnets (1897 Chapman & Hall)
Completed 'St Ives' by R L Stevenson (1898 Heinemann)
The Ship of Stars (1899 Cassell)
Historical Tales from Shakespeare (1899 Edward Arnold) - ss
A Fowey Garland (1899 Cassell) - signed Ltd Ed 300
(Ed) The Cornish Magazine (1899 J Pollard, Truro) - 2 vols
(Ed) The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (1900 OUP)
[This sold 500,000 copies in his lifetime]
Old Fires And Profitable Ghosts (1900 Cassell) - ss

1901-1905
The Laird's Luck & Other Fireside Tales (1901 Cassell)
The Westcotes (1902 J W Arrowsmith, Bristol)
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales (1902 Methuen 6/-)
Two Sides of the Face (1903 J W Arrowsmith) - ss
The Adventures of Harry Revel (1903 Cassell)
Hetty Wesley (1903 Harper) (1908 Arrowsmith New Ed)
Fort Amity (1904 John Murray)
Shining Ferry (1905 Hodder & Stoughton)
Shakespeare's Christmas & other Stories (1905 Smith Elder)

1906-1910
Sir John Constantine (1906 Smith Elder)
The Mayor of Troy (1906 Methuen)
(Ed) The Pilgrim's Way (1906 Seeley)
From a Cornish Window (1906 J W Arrowsmith)
Poison Island (1907 Dent)
Merry Garden & Other Stories (1907 Methuen)
Major Vigoureux (1907 Methuen)
True Tilda (1909 J W Arrowsmith)
Lady Good-for-Nothing (1910 Nelson)
Corporal Sam & other Stories (1910 Smith Elder)
(Ed) The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales (1910 Hodder & Stoughton)
- 1000 signed by Edmund Dulac
(Ed) The Oxford Book of Ballads (1910 OUP)

1911-1915
Borther Copas (1911 J W Arrowsmith)
Hocken and Hunken : A Tale of Troy (1912 William Blackwood)
The Roll Call of Honour (1912 Nelson) - ss
The Vigil of Venus & Other Poems (1912 Methuen)
My Best Book (1912) - Ltd 300 Signed Ed - ss
(Ed) The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1912 OUP)
(Ed) In Powder and Crinoline (1913 Hodder & Stoughton) - Kay Nielsen
Offered in 1991 for £480
The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other (nd. c1913 Doran, NY) - Kay Nielsen
The American issue of "In Powder & Crinoline"
News from the Duchy (1913 J W Arrowsmith) - ss
Poetry (1914 Fellowship Books)
Nicky-Nan, Reservist (1915 Wm Blackwood)

1916-1920
On the Art of Writing (1916 CUP)
Mortallone and Aunt Trinidad (1917 J W Arrowsmith) - ss
Foe-Farrell (1918 Collins)
Studies in Literature (1918 CUP) - First series
On the Art of Reading (1920 CUP)

1921-1930
Studies in Literature (1922 CUP) - 2nd Series
(Arranged by) The Children's Bible (1924 CUP) - with Alexander Nairne & T R Glover
Charles Dickens and Other Victorians (1925 CUP)
(Ed) The Oxford Book of English prose (1925 OUP)
A Lecture on Lectures (1927 Hogarth Lectures on Literature No 1) - pamphlet
The Duchy Edition of Tales and Romances (1928 Dent) - 30 vols
Studies in Literature (1929 CUP) - 3rd Series
Poems (1929 OUP)
(Ed) Pages of English Prose 1390-1930 (1930 OUP)

1931 Onwards
The Poet as Citizen and Other Papers (1934 CUP)
(Ed) Felicities of Thomas Traherne (1934 PJ & AE Dobell)
(Ed) English Sonnets (1935 Chapman & Hall)
(In) The Best Poems of 1935 (selected by Thomas Moult) (1935 Cape)
Mystery Stories (1937 Dent)
(Ed) The Oxford Book of English Verse1250-1918 (1939 OUP)
Anthology (1942 Dent)
Cambridge Lectures (1943 Everyman's Library)
Memories and Opinions (1944 CUP) - unfinished autobiography
Shorter Stories (1944 Dent 8/6)
Castle Dor (1962 Dent) - with Daphne Du Maurier

READING
F Brittain : Arthur Quiller-Couch - A Biographical Study (1947 Cambridge UP)
A L Rowse : Quiller-Couch - A Portrait of 'Q' (1988 Methuen)