Mabel Quiller-Couch


Florence Mabel Quiller-Couch was an English editor, compiler and children's writer.

Biography

Mabel Quiller-Couch was born in Bodmin, Cornwall to physician Thomas Quiller-Couch and his wife, Mary. She was the second child and eldest daughter of five children. Her elder brother was the critic Arthur Quiller-Couch. After a disappointment in love, she lived with her younger sister Lilian Mary, also a writer, in Hampstead.
Of her 26 publications, one was jointly written and one jointly edited with her sister. Quiller-Couch was the author of a number of novels and the compiler of an anthology of writings about the University of Oxford up to 1850.

Selected works

Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall. London: Chas. J. Clark, 1894 One Good Seed Sown: or, Old Jasper's Protege 1 vol. London: Sunday School Union, 1896.