The Westcotes by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Fiction, Fantasy, Literary

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was born in 1863 in Cornwall. Knighted in 1910, the distinguished author whose pseudonym was "Q, " was the King Edward Professor of English at Cambridge. Many of his novels featured Cornish themes, and were praised by critics and readers alike. Quiller-Couch was, for nearly forty years, the editor of The Oxford Book of English Verse. After a reversal of family fortunes, "Q" wrote and published more than 30 novels prior to 1900, many of which were well-plotted action and adventure tales in the spirit of Robert Louis Stevenson and H. Rider Haggard. The Westcotes, published in 1902, represents a departure for "Q, " in the human interest and exploration of character to be found in its story of a middle-aged woman and her love for a young man. "Q" was one of the most respected and beloved figures in British literature, he died unexpectedly in an auto crash in 1944.