Quiller-Couch

American  

[kwil-er-kooch] / ˈkwɪl ərˈkutʃ /

noun

1. Sir Arthur Thomas Q, 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.

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Quiller-Couch British  

/ ˌkwɪləˈkuːtʃ /

noun

1. Sir Arthur ( Thomas ), known as Q . 1863–1944, British critic and novelist, who edited the Oxford Book of English Verse (1900)

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Example Sentences

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 80, dean of English belle-lettrists, two months after he was hit by a jeep; in Fowey, Cornwall.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said learned Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge since 1912: "I had no idea of its origin."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Quiller-Couch has said that "neither in the telling did, or could, 'Enoch Arden' come near the artistic truth of 'The Daffodil Fields'."

From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert

Thus do Professor Ker and Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch evade the task of definition-making.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce

So Mr. Kipling's first work betokened a knowledge of the world that is by no means to be found in "Dead Man's Rock," the first book published by Mr. Quiller-Couch.

From The Splendid Spur by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir