THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:

DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS

CORNWALL

DING 2015: "The best known Cornish author and prolific writer of novels and short tales with a Cornish setting, many of them containing Cornish English. He was born at Bodmin, Co. He went to school at Newton Abbot College, Dev. and at Clifton College, in Bristol. Later he attended Trinity College in Oxford. He moved to London in 1887 and began his careeer as a novelist and short story writer. In 1891 his health made it necessary for him to move to the coast, and he resided in Fowey, Co., for the rest of his life. In 1912 he was appointed King Edward VII professor of English literature at Cambridge University."

Leclaire (1954: 146): “Born at Polperro”.

WORKS

1887. Dead Man's Rock. London: Cassell. EDD.

1888. The Astonishing History of Troy Town. London: J. M. Dent and Sons.EDD.

1891. Noughts and Crosses. London: Cassell.EDD.

1892. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter's Tales. London: Cassell. EDD.

1892. The Haunted Dragoon. London: Cassell. EDD.

1893. The Delectable Duchy. London: Cassell. EDD.

1895. Wandering Heath. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. SC. EDD.

1896. Ia. 1896. London: Cassell and Cy. SC.

1906. From a Cornish Window. NY: E.P. Dutton & Company. SC. Not in EDD.

KINGKONG PROJECT

Sir, Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH (M: 1863 Nov 21 - 1944 May 12)

(&ps: Prosper Paleologus CONSTANTINE; Q)

17842 Dead Man's Rock [1887]

17263 The Astonishing History Of Troy Town (ps: Q) [n|1888]

6437 The Splendid Spur [1889]

The World Of Adventure.. [3v|1889-91]

15865 Noughts And Crosses [s|1891]

11496 Poetry [p|1891]

14206 I Saw Three Ships.. [s|1892]

The Blue Pavilions [f|1893]

12277 The Delectable Duchy [s|1894]

Fairy Tales, Far And Near [1895]

Wandering Heath [s|1895]

17452 Adventures In Criticism [e|1896]

A Spanish Maid [f|1898]

16000 The Ship Of Stars [f|1899]

13799 Old Fires And Profitable Ghosts [s|1900]

12923 The Laird's Luck.. [s|1901]

14817 The White Wolf.. [s|1902]

10548 The Westcotes [1902]

16890 Hetty Wesley [f|1903]

Two Sides Of The Face [s|1903]

The Adventures Of Harry Revel [f|1903]

Fort Amity [f|1904]

Shining Ferry [f|1905]

From A Cornish Window [f|1906]

The Mayor Of Troy (ps: Q) [f|1906]

15565 Sir John Constantine (ps: Prosper Paleologus CONSTANTINE) [1906]

Merry-Garden.. [s|1907]

Major Vigoreux [f|1907]

16604 Poison Island [f|1907]

12316 True Tilda [f|1909]

The Oxford Book Of Ballads (ed) [p|1910]

16194 Corporal Sam.. [s|1910]

15228 Lady Good-For Nothing [f|1910]

B The Sleeping Beauty.. [s|1910]

Brother Copas [f|1911]

10133 The Vigil Of Venus.. (ps: Q) [p|1912]

14533 Hocken And Hunken [f|1912]

The Oxford Book Of Victorian Verse (ed) [p|1912]

News From The Duchy [f|1913]

15710 Nicky-Nan, Reservist [f|1915]

B On The Art Of Writing [e|1916]

Studies In Literature [1918/22]

1304,B The Oxford Book Of English Verse (ed) [p|1919]

16579,B On The Art Of Reading [e|1920]

The Oxford Book Of English Prose (ed) [1925]

Collected Poems [p|1929]

16898 Green Bays: Verses And Parodies (ps: Q) [p|?/1930]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Quiller-Couch

http://www.online-literature.com/quiller-couch/

http://www.violetbooks.com/quiller-couch.html

Smith, Michael Douglas. 2009. "Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller- (1863–1944)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: University Press. [accessed 5 May 2015]

LITERARY DIALECTS

1800-1950

SOUTH

CORNWALL PROSE

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

(Ps. Constantine, Prosperus Paleologus)

(1863-1944)