Arthur Quiller-Couch left unfinished at Quiller-Couch's death and was completed many years later by Daphne du Maurier. As she wrote in the "Sunday Telegraph" on April 1962, she began the job with considerable trepidation, at the request of Quiller-Couch's daughter and "in memory of happy evenings long ago when 'Q' was host at Sunday supper". He features as a main character, played by Leo McKern, in the 1992 BBC television feature "The Last Romantics". The story focuses on his relationship with his protégé, F. R. Leavis, and the students. His Cambridge inaugural lecture series, published as "On the Art of Writing", is
H. R. Millar illustrated fables for the Strand Magazine, and anthologies of tales, "The Golden Fairy Book", "The Silver Fairy Book", "The Diamond Fairy Book", and "The Ruby Fairy Book". He illustrated books by a wide range of British authors of his time, including Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling. He had an extensive working relationship with E. Nesbit, and has been called "the most sympathetic and perhaps the most talented of her illustrators." Apart from fantasy and children's books, Millar drew pictures for works like Kate Lawson's "Highways and Homes of Japan" (1910) and Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore's "African Jungle