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

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

And what a picture it is that Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch has painted of the holy woman's deathbed!

From Mushrooms on the Moor by Boreham, Frank

Quiller-Couch sees life without a touch of morbid somberness and he commands a vivacious, highly-trained style.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post

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 Long, William Joseph