The nine others ranged over time, events, and style without the common thread of place.
One facet of Q as a novelist, therefore, is as the great chronicler of Cornwall and the Cornish, a position further reinforced by his scores of short stories. His is a restricted window, however, for Q disliked the brooding, dark side of humanity and wrote little of it. Another facet is as the adventurist: Q's most popular novels were rousing tales of daring exploits in foreign lands. These are the most perishable of Q's novels, and unlike Robert Louis Stevenson's works, which influenced them, they have had little to offer succeeding generations. A third facet is as an explorer of human character, both male and female; Q was particularly adept at depicting a woman in distress.
The eldest of five children, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (pronounced "Cooch") was born in Bodmin, Cornwall, on 21 November 1863. His father, Thomas Quiller Couch, was a doctor, descended from generations of Cornishmen from the fishing village of Polperro. His mother, Mary Ford Quiller Couch, was from Devonshire, near Newton Abbot. Q's father was an amateur painter and naturalist, as well as a writer on Cornish antiquities and folklore, and his grandfather, Jonathan Couch, wrote a major treatise on ichthyology, The History of British Fishes (1836).
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