Q's Historical Legacy - XVII - Tales of the Civil War
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Now surpassed in fame by his daughter's best friend, Daphne Du Maurier, Arthur Quiller-Couch was the pre-eminent Cornish writer of Victorian and Edwardian times.His work is of great interest since his fiction often contains a factual, historical, basisThis volume contains five tales of adventure, romance, escapades and an occasional lucky escape:-- 'Captain Wyvern's Adventures', relates the explosive consequences of the imprisonment of Parliamentarians in the tower of the.- 'Margery of Lawhibbet' tells of brother and sister twins and the consequences for both after the brother goes to fight for the Royalists-'Red Velvet' recounts the outcome of the capture of aParliamentarian by a female Royalist.-'The Copernican Convoy' retells of the sack of Farnham.-'The Splendid Spur' tells of a student who, encounters a mysterious stranger and finds himself carrying a letter from the King.
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