Author:Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
(1863–1944)

Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Works

Fiction

• Dead Man's Rock (1887) (transcription project)
• The Splendid Spur (1889)
• St. Ives (complete, illustrated): Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1898), (completing an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.) (transcription project)
• Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches (1898)
• The Ship of Stars (1899)
• Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts. A Book of Stories (1900)
• The sleeping beauty and other fairy tales from the old French retold by Arthur Quiller-Couch illustrated by Edmund Dulac. New York: Hodder & Stoughton. 1910.
  • 1923 edition (transcription project)
• True Tilda (1909)

• The Astonishing History of Troy Town (1888)* (external scan)
• Wandering Heath; Stories, Studies and Sketches (1895)* (external scan)
• The Blue Pavilions (1891)* (external scan)
• I Saw Three Ships, and Other Winter's Tales (1892)* (external scan)
• The Delectable Duchy: Stories, Studies And Sketches (1893)*
• Ia, a Love Story (1896) (external scan)
• The Laird's Luck, and Other Fireside Tales (1901)* (external scan)
• The White Wolf, and other Fireside Tales (1902)* (external scan)
• The Westcotes and Tom Tiddler's Ground (1902)* (external scan)
  • The Westcotes
  • Tom Tiddler's Ground
• Hetty Wesley (1903)* (based on the life of the poet Mehetabel Wesley Wright) (external scan)
• The Adventures of Harry Revel (1903)* (external scan)
• Two Sides of the Face; Midwinter Tales (1903)* (external scan)
• Fort Amity (1904)* (external scan)
• The Shining Ferry (1905)* (external scan)
• Shakespeare's Christmas and other stories (1905)* (external scan)
• The Mayor of Troy (1906)* (external scan)
• Sir John Constantine: Memoirs of His Adventures (1906)* (external scan)
• Merry Garden and Other Stories (1907)* (external scan)
• Poison Island (1907)* (external scan)
• Major Vigoureaux (1907)* (external scan)
• Hocken and Hunken; a Tale of Troy (1912)* (external scan)
• Brother Copas (1913)* (external scan)
• Lady Good-for-Nothing; a Man's Portrait of a Woman (1910)* (external scan)
• News from the Duchy (1913)* (external scan)
• Nicky-Nan, Reservist (1915)* (external scan)
• Foe-Farrell; a Romance (1918)* (external scan)
• Corporal Sam and Other Stories (1910)* (external scan)

A collected edition of Q's fiction appeared as Tales and Romances (30 volumes, 1928–29).

Works from periodicals

• "Humours of the Duchy" (1893-94, English Illustrated) (article)
• "The Keepers of the Lamp" (1900 June, The Pall Mall Magazine) (ss)
• "The Talking Ships" (1901 Oct, The Pall Mall Magazine) (ss)
• "John and the Ghosts" (1901 Dec, Pall Mall Magazine) (ss)
• "The Monkey-Flowers" (1901, Cosmopolitan) (ss)
• "England!" (1901, Pall Mall Magazine) (ss)
• "Phoebus on Halzaphron" (1901 Aug, Scribner's Magazine) (ss)
• "Three Photographs" (The Pall Mall Magazine, 1901 Nov) (ss)
• "The Bridals of Ysselmonde" (1901, Pall Mall Magazine) (ss)
• "The Three Necklaces" (1909 Dec, The Pall Mall Magazine) (ss)
• "John-for-the-King!" (1912 Dec, Pall Mall Magazine) (ss)
• "Tantivy Corner!" (1913-14, Windsor) (ss)
• "Mutual Exchange" (1915 Dec, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "The Fight for the Garden" in The Times Red Cross Story Book (1915) By "Famous Novelists Serving in His Majesty's Forces"

Verse

• Green Bays: Verses and Parodies (1893)* (external scan)
• Poems and Ballads (1896)
• The Golden Pomp: a Procession of English Lyrics from Surrrey to Shirley (1905) (external scan)
• The Pilgrims' Way: a Little Scrip of Good Counsel for Travellers (1906) (external scan)
• English Sonnets (1910) (external scan)
• The Vigil of Venus, and Other Poems (1912)* (external scan)
• The Oxford Book of Ballads (1920?) (external scan)
• The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1922) (external scan)

Criticism, anthologies and non-fiction

• The Golden Pomp, a procession of English lyrics from Surrey to Shirley (1895)
• Adventures in Criticism (1896)* (external scan)
• Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 also online (1900)
• From a Cornish Window (1906)* (external scan)
• English Sonnets (1910)
• The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales from the Old French (1910)*
• Historical tales from Shakespeare (1910) (external scan)
• The Oxford Book of Ballads (1911)
• In Powder and Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales Retold (1913)
• Introduction to Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures (1912)
• On the Art of Writing (1916)* (external scan)
• Notes on Shakespeare's Workmanship (1917)
• Memoir of Arthur John Butler (1917) (external scan)
• Studies in Literature First Series and Second Series (1918) (external scan)
• On the Art of Reading (1920)* (external scan)
• The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1922)
• Oxford Book of English Prose (1923)

Editor

• Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900, 1919. Oxford.
  • Preface to the Oxford Book of English Verse
• The New Shakespeare, (1921–1966). Cambridge

Encyclopaedia Britannica

"Brown, Thomas Edward," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

DNB

• Butler, Arthur John

Transcription projects

• Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (transcription project)
• Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918 (transcription project)

Works about Quiller-Couch

• "Couch, Arthur Thomas," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas ("Q")," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)