Hocken and Hunken; a tale of Troy. By: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781548467357)

Quiller-Couch was born in the town of Bodmin, Cornwall, by the union of two ancient local families, the Quiller family and the Couch family, and was the third in a line of intellectuals from the Couch family. His younger sisters Florence Mabel and Lilian M. were also writers and folklorists. His father, Dr. Thomas Quiller Couch (d. 1884), was a noted physician, folklorist and historian. He married Mary Ford and lived at 63, Fore Street, Bodmin, until his death in 1884. His grandfather, Jonathan Couch, was an eminent naturalist, also a physician, historian, classicist, apothecary, and illustrator (particularly of fish). His son, Bevil Brian Quiller-Couch, was a war hero and poet, whose romantic letters to his fianc e, the poet May Wedderburn Cannan, were published in Tears of War. He also had a daughter, Foy Felicia, to whom Kenneth Grahame inscribed a first edition of his The Wind in the Willows attributing Quiller-Couch as the inspiration for the character Ratty

Author: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
ISBN-10: 1548467359
ISBN-13: 9781548467357
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2017
Pages: 162
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.35d