Jonathan Couch remains. The "History of Polperro", (1871), issued after his death by his son, T. Q. Couch, is his chief work in this department. The stories in this book were re-used by Louisa Sarah Ann Parr in her successful novel about smuggling titled "Adam and Eve". Couch left three sons by his second wife: Richard Quiller, Thomas Quiller (father of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch), and John Quiller, who all became surgeons (Quiller being their mother's maiden name and Quiller's House the family residence). Thomas practised successfully at Bodmin, and died on 23 October 1884, aged 58. He was a constant contributor to
The School of Night "The School of Night" is a modern name: the theory that this so-called school was a clandestine intellectual coterie was launched by Arthur Acheson, on textual grounds, in "Shakespeare and the Rival Poet" (1903). The new wording derives from a passage in Act IV, scene 3 of Shakespeare's "Love's Labours Lost", in which the King of Navarre says "Black is the badge of hell / The hue of dungeons and the school of night." Acheson's proposal was endorsed by notable editors John Dover Wilson and Arthur Quiller Couch in their 1923 edition of "Love's Labours Lost". There are, however, at