Showing posts with label Arthur Quiller-Couch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arthur Quiller-Couch. Show all posts
Sunday, March 05, 2023

True Tilda, Private Eye and rendering dialect in print

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When I was quoting from Arthur Quiller-Couch's True Tilda on this blog, I harvested them from the Project Gutenberg plain text version....
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Lord Bonkers' Diary: "A drop of What-killed-Aunty"

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You see? They don't call the Wise Woman of Wing 'wise' for nothing. And I am indebted to Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch for the expres...
Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch: "Murder your darlings"

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'Murder your darlings.' It's the writing advice you hear everywhere, but who first said it? The answer is this blog's new he...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Further into Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and True Tilda

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Today's rabbit hole is Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, and True Tilda in particular, because I've made two discoveries about the book. The...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Kenneth Griffith's film Emily Hobhouse: The Englishwoman

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I'm not bringing you a contemporary newspaper account of the 1899 meeting to oppose the Boer War that Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch chaired i...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

Emily Hobhouse: A Cornish humanitarian

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Looking for an account of the meeting against the Boer War that Arthur Quiller-Couch chaired at Liskeard in 1899, I came across this tribut...
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Friday, January 20, 2023

He was a good Cornish Liberal and a Radical: Sir Arthur
Quiller-Couch and True Tilda

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I once imagined that Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (rhymes with Gooch), who signed himself Q and edited Horace Rumpole's beloved Oxford Book...
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