Bevil Quiller-Couch

MC entitled her second collection The Splendid Days, Poems; she dedicated it to her dead fiancé, Bevil Quiller-Couch .

Without children of his own, Barrie had a habit of monopolising the children of friends, for whom he invented elaborate games. Among children so situated were Bevil Quiller-Couch (who was later the fiancé of the...

Bevil Quiller-Couch arrived in Paris on leave and went straight to MC 's office; the moment she saw him she knew he was there to propose marriage.

Five years after she was to have married Bevil Quiller-Couch , MC got married very quietly, at Camden Hill in London, to Percival James Slater (PJ); the wedding was the...

One of MC 's three best friends was almost certainly Bevil Quiller-Couch , son of her father's ex-pupil and close friend Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch . The father, called Q, was a leader in the...

MC kept the letters which Bevil Quiller-Couch had sent her from the front, and transcribed on a typewriter his letters to his parents from the army, those sent by his army friends after his death...

Bevil Quiller-Couch wrote that of the books he had read at the Front (more books than during the rest of my life, including war novels and war poems), this was the only one...

Bevil wrote, I love your letters and am more happy every time another arrives.

MC probably wrote the first of her letters to her future fiancé, Bevil Quiller-Couch , in early 1915. Not until after the engagement, that is after the war, did she write to him at...

At the time of her brief engagement MC seems to have entertained the fantasy of treating the war in prose, as a love-token for Bevil Quiller-Couch . He wrote to her: When you write your...