Florence Mabel Quiller-Couch (17 June 1865''England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975'' – November 1924) was an English editor, compiler and children's writer.

Biography

Mabel Quiller-Couch was born in

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, Cornwall to physician Thomas Quiller-Couch and his wife, Mary (''née'' Ford). She was the second child and eldest daughter of five children. Her elder brother was the critic

Arthur Quiller-Couch Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (; 21 November 186312 May 1944) was a Cornish people, British writer who published using the pen name, pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication ''The Oxfor ...

. After a disappointment in love, she lived with her younger sister Lilian Mary, also a writer, in

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. 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

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up to 1850.

Selected works

*(With Lilian Quiller-Couch) ''Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall''. London: Chas. J. Clark, 1894 (Based on a manuscript work by Thomas Quiller-Couch; reissued: Liskeard, Cornwall: Tamara, 1994) *''Kitty Trenire''. London: Thomas Nelson, 1909 (Juvenile novel; Reissued: Hertford: Cityscape, 2001) *''A Book of Children's Verse''; arranged by Mabel and Lilian Quiller-Couch; illus. by M. Etheldreda Gray. London: Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton, 1911 **(Edited with Lilian Quiller-Couch) ''The Treasure Book of Children's Verse''. New York, G. H. Doran, 1911 (there are also later reissues of both the British and American editions) *''Cornwall's Wonderland''. London: J. M. Dent, 1914 (Contents: How Corineus fought the chief of the giants.--The giant of St. Michael's Mount.--The legend of the Tamar, the Tavy, and the Taw.--The strange story of Cherry Honey.--The fairies on the Gump.--The fairy ointment.--The exciting adventure of John Sturtridge.--The true story of Anne and the fairies.--Barker and the Buccas.--Lutey and the mermaid.--The wicked spectre.--The story of the lovers' cove.--The silver table.--Cruel Coppinger, the Dane.--Madge Figgy, the wrecker.--How Madge Figgy got her pig.--The story of Sir Tristram and La Belle Isoult.)

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* * * 1865 births 1924 deaths English children's writers People from Bodmin {{UK-writer-stub