As a student of Oxford University, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch signed articles contributed to the Oxford University Magazine with the letter "Q," and he continued to use that signature all his life. Q had a remarkable, and yet dual, career: first, he publis...
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, commonly known as "Q," the initial with which he signed many of his works, was a reformer and reform writer primarily in working to improve secondary education in Cornwall and in contributing to the reform of the study of Englis...
At the end of the nineteenth century, Arthur Quiller-Couch was a prominent man of letters, one of a group of literary, often scholarly, journalists whose work filled the pages of the better magazines with short stories, book reviews, and causeries. As as...
Splendid Sprinter, an aptly named 4-year-old gelding who has never finished out of the money in his 12-race career (6-4-2), arrived yesterday from Aqueduct and will get a chance to show just how splendid he can be in today's $100,000 Suffolk Downs Breeders' Cup...
New book from The Splendid Table elevates the evening meal Supper's in trouble. But it may be in for a boost. "We've all heard the fact that we don't sit down to supper and look at each other across the table, and...