Background
Mabel Quiller-Couch was the daughter of Thomas Quiller-Couch of Bodmin and his wife Mary (née Ford), and younger sister of the critic Arthur Quiller-Couch.
Mabel Quiller-Couch was the daughter of Thomas Quiller-Couch of Bodmin and his wife Mary (née Ford), and younger sister of the critic Arthur Quiller-Couch.
She was one of five children of whom Arthur was the eldest son. Lilian M. Quiller-Couch was the author of a number of novels and the compiler of an anthology of writings about the University of Oxford up to 1850.