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
Arthur Quiller-Couch an enormous relief to these two gentlemen when the War Office took over the 10th Battalion on 24 August 1915. In 1887, while he was attending Oxford, he published "Dead Man's Rock", a romance in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island", and later "Troy Town" (1888), a comic novel set in a fictionalised version of his home town Fowey, and "The Splendid Spur" (1889). Quiller-Couch was well known for his story "The Rollcall of the Reef", based on the wreck of HMS "Primrose" during 1809 on the Cornish coast. He published during 1896 a series of critical articles,