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
Jonathan Couch "Natural History of British Fishes", and Yarrell was still more indebted to him in his "British Fishes", to all three editions of which (1836, 1841, and 1859) Couch was a copious contributor. His "Cornish Fauna", (part i. 1838, part ii. 1841), completed by his son Richard Quiller Couch in 1844, was another valuable piece of work. But his magnum opus was "A History of the Fishes of the British Islands," with coloured illustrations from his own drawings, (4 vols., London, 1860–65). This is a storehouse of information, carefully collected and sifted, as to the habits of fishes, and in many