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 the union of two ancient local families, the Quiller family and the Couch family, and was the third in a line of intellectuals from the Couch family. His younger sisters Florence Mabel and Lilian M. were also writers and folklorists. His father, Dr.Thomas Quiller Couch (d.1884), was a noted physician, folklorist and historian, who married Mary Ford and lived at 63, Fore Street, Bodmin, until his death in 1884. His grandfather, Jonathan Couch, was an eminent naturalist, also a physician, historian, classicist, apothecary, and illustrator (particularly of fish). Arthur Quiller-Couch had two children. His son, Bevil Brian Quiller-Couch, was a