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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Quiller-Couch

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

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

Mr. Quiller-Couch almost entirely avoids such attempts, and even Mr. Conan Doyle only dips into them timidly.

From The Splendid Spur by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

The latter was finished by Quiller-Couch in 1897; the former is happily just as Stevenson left it, and though unfinished is generally regarded as his masterpiece.

From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by William Joseph Long

By Arthur Quiller-Couch This is the story of a very distinguished member of the London Fire Brigade—the dog Chance.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories by William Patten